Date: 16 Mar 2000 02:15:33 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <8apcjl$k0b$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151307410.358-100000@svalbard.nominum.com> <200003152132.WAA00696@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> wrote:
> Peter Losher writes:
>
> >xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0A = 1 oslash"
> >
> >(Map the 'Shift-1' key from a ! to a oslash)
> >
> >When I do the xmodmap, and I press 'Shift-1' in xterm, I get nothing.
Works for me.
> >Is there some configuration setting that I am missing?
Your shell--or in whatever program you are trying to type--may be
set up to eat 8-bit characters. Equally for your tty. Finally, your
terminal may use a font that lacks the required glyphs.
<Sigh> Okay, let's approach this step by step. What program are
you typing this in?
> I don't think it's quite that simple. In my experience you definitely
> need to have a Mode_shift key to get this sort of thing to work right.
Please don't increase the confusion. <Mode_switch> ("ModeShift" is
only used in XF86Config) is only required to access the second
group, i.e. the third and fourth character you specify with xmodmap.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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