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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal.Gienger)
Subject: German ISO-"Umlauts" with XFree 86 3.1.2
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I have a little problem here:
How can I enter german ISO Umlauts in a xterm Window under
XFree86 (3.1.2) ?
As keymap for the syscons console driver I am using "german.iso".
The Umlaut-Keys should give then the correct ISO chars. But in an
xterm window, these keys aren't recognized. Pressing them results in
no reaction. When using the "german.cp850" keymap, it gives DOS-
Umlauts in the syscons screen and strange characters in an xterm window
(d, | and \). Seems to be the missing bit 7 (8th bit). stty -a gives
however cs8.
So my questions:
1) How to enter ISO Umlauts under Xfree86?
2) Why xterm only prints 7 bit characters?
eightBitInput and eightBitOutput are set to "true" in the app-defaults
for xterm (XTerm).
Pascal
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