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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Netscape 8bit input
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According to Adam David:
> Netscape will not accept 8bit characters from the mouse buffer, and will not
> accept accent keystrokes from the keyboard.

Which Netscape ? Linux or BSDi ?

The 3.0/BSDI is showing the same symptoms. Maybe a bad interaction between
the libraries used by Netscape and X11R6 ?

> On my keyboard, SHIFT-RALT-2 defines '@' but netscape uses ALT-2 as a hotkey
> to jump to the 2nd location on the "GO" list. Therefore I find the only way
> to enter '@' is to copy it from another window with the mouse.

Do you have a special entry in your .xmodmap (do you use one ?) for '@' ?

'@' is bound to AltGr+0 on my french keyboard and is defined like this:

keycode  19 = agrave 0 at

The Alt+2 key is the following:

keycode  11 = eacute 2 asciitilde

I also have the following to deal with AltGr differently than Alt.

keycode 113 = Mode_switch
add mod4 = Multi_key

And finally, I have this in XF86Config:


Section "Keyboard"
    Protocol	"Standard"
	XkbDisable
	AutoRepeat 300 10
    ServerNumLock

# To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, 
# RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:

    LeftAlt     Meta
    RightAlt    ModeShift
    ScrollLock  ModeLock
EndSection

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #36: Mon Jan 13 21:43:35 CET 1997