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#! rnews 2280 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news 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 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32484E76.1B71@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32469d16.0@latex> <5289tm$k8@klemm.gtn.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) 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. > > -- > andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH > Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de > pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |