Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> Cc: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141357240.75538-100000@svalbard.nominum.com> In-Reply-To: <20000314222151.B2487@student.csd.uu.se>
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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 <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> 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
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