From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 14: 7:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from svalbard.nominum.com (svalbard.nominum.com [204.152.187.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6EE37B7EC for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter.Losher@nominum.com) Received: by svalbard.nominum.com (Postfix, from userid 10188) id 89E7E3DDB; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svalbard.nominum.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ABF3DAF; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Peter Losher , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... In-Reply-To: <20000314222151.B2487@student.csd.uu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > I do a lot of communication with individuals overseas, esp. in Norway, and > > one thing that has bugged me to no end since switching my home box > > platform from Windows to FreeBSD was the inability to type "extended > > characters", like the "a ring", "o slash", "ae", etc. In the case of the > > "a ring", I was able to replicate that in Windows using the old DOS > > ALT-codes. > > > > ALT-codes work fine in the FreeBSD console too. (But not in X-windows.) Drat :) (since I am in X11, using xterm pretty much all the time) However, in the U.S. ALT-keymaps in MS-DOS/Windows, the only Norsk character I could ever enter was the "a ring". > First remember that FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) doesn't know > or care what the markings on your keyboard are. > You can just change the mappings to whatever you wish. > > Do a 'man kbdcontrol' for more info. > > (Short version: Put the line > keymap="norwegian.iso" > in your /etc/rc.conf and your keyboard will act like a norwegian keyboard.) Yeah, I do get that, however, it would be more useful if I could just add the Norwegian characters to a copy of the us.iso.kbd (perhaps call it personal.kbd). So to get a "a ring" I would do a 'ALT-!' and for a "o slash", a 'ALT-@', and so on. Is this possible? (BTW, thanks for your message!) -Peter --- Peter Losher Systems Admin. - Nominum, Inc. PGP key available on request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message