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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 keymap
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j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>kimmo@website1.carelian.fi (Kimmo Leskinen) wrote:

>> I need ISO-8859-1 compatible characters and have no clue howto do it
>on NetBSD 1.2.

>I believe you need to install the `pcvt' driver for this.

No, you don't have to. It's just a bit more difficult if you don't.

Under X, the standard (at least for a Sun) compose sequences work
if you have set up a 'compose' key (compose s s = ß, compose o " = ö,
compose + - = ±, etc).

Under the normal console, you can use compose, then type in the decimal
value of the character you want on the keypad, then left alt. Not as
graceful, perhaps, but it works. And you should be using X anyway. :-)

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