From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 23 16:24:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23186 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from aris (aris.jpl.nasa.gov [137.79.6.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA23168 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by aris (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA14880; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:23:58 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:23:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: hamby@aris Reply-To: Jake Hamby To: hackers@freebsd.org cc: XFree86@xfree86.org Subject: How to type French characters into Netscape? In-Reply-To: <199701231815.AA04536@simi.gmd.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id QAA23170 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (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 ( + ' + 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, BeOS, or NT, eh? | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This space intentionally left blank."