Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:23:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: XFree86@xfree86.org Subject: How to type French characters into Netscape? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970123160103.14787A-100000@aris> In-Reply-To: <199701231815.AA04536@simi.gmd.de>
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(I'm CC'ing this question to FreeBSD-hackers as well as XFree86 because it
seems to be more of a FreeBSD/Netscape related question now that I've
figured out the XFree86 angle)
Thanks to those who responded to my initial query, now I am able to type
the French accented characters in XFree86 (instructions are given below).
But now I have a different problem: FreeBSD Netscape doesn't support
the accented characters! I'm using the Netscape-3.01 port under
FreeBSD-current and XFree86 3.2. When I paste, for example, an é into
Netscape, I get nothing, when I try to type it (<right-alt> + ' + e), I
get 'e, which isn't right either.
Is there something I can figure to make Netscape's text-entry boxes 8-bit
clean? Is it because it's an X11R5 binary? Would using the Linux version
of Netscape help? If I can't figure this out, I'm just going to use my
BeBox web browser because this X configuration nonsense has wasted too
much of my time already!
I was successfully able to map the Right Alt key to Multi_key, by changing
the line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 from:
xkb_symbols { include "us(pc105)" };
to
xkb_symbols { include "us(pc101compose)" };
This changes the Right ALT key to work like the Compose key on a Sun,
which is what I wanted in the first place. In fact, if it wasn't for
Netscape (or for that matter "tcsh") not being 8-bit clean, I probably
would've figured this out a while ago. Any suggestions on getting
Netscape to work would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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