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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: German ISO-"Umlauts" with XFree 86 3.1.2
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:11:18 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> In article <32469d16.0@latex>,
>         Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal.Gienger) writes:
> > 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".
> 
> I'm using keymap="german.cp850" in /etc/sysconfig, which matches
> my German keyboard a whole lot better.
> 
> Here is my environment so far:
> LANG=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
> 
> And I have no problems to get äöü in an xterm and a vi session
> for example... I'm running FreeBSD-current

Just to confirm: the above characters also show up correctly in Netscape
3.0 for Win 3.1, and I'd expect no trouble in Netscape for X either.

> 
> Don't know, which special settings I did, if I look at my
> environment, nothing special. It simply works.
> 
> As far as I know, XFree86 gets the keymappings or such from
> syscons ... So choose the correct keyboard mapping as mentioned
> above and it should work.
> 
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-- 
Ken

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