From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 09:32:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF03616A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:32:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (mail.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D2943D45 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:32:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02444 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:31:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) X-Authentication-Warning: hunter.Sisis.de: mail set sender to using -f Received: from hermes.sisis.de(193.31.10.38) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma002436; Wed, 14 Sep 05 11:30:52 +0200 Received: from revolucion.Sisis.de (brecht.Sisis.de [193.31.10.34]) by hermes.sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02458 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:32:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: by revolucion.Sisis.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 98EF995668; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:31:31 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050914093131.GA4376@revolucion.Sisis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: guru@Sisis.de (Matthias Apitz) Subject: spanish chars in FreeBSD commands X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: guru@Sisis.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:32:23 -0000 Hi, I speak and write Spanish and for this I need support of the Spanish special chars in FreeBSD; for this in SuSE Linux I've used some xmodmap's to get the chars by pressing, for example, the Windows-key + 'a' to get the char 'α'; the commands are: xmodmap -e "keycode 0x73 = Mode_switch" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x39 = n N ntilde Ntilde" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1a = e E eacute Eacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x26 = a A aacute Aacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1f = i I iacute Iacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1e = u U uacute Uacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x20 = o O oacute Oacute" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x14 = questiondown question backslash ssharp" xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0a = 1 exclam exclamdown onesuperior" they work in FreeBSD with Xorg as well but some FreeBSD commands don't show the chars very well: $ cat espanol αινσρΑΙΝΣ‘Ώ $ od -c espanol 0000000 341 351 355 363 361 301 311 315 323 241 277 \n 0000014 $ more espanol $ vi espanol \xe1\xe9\xed\xf3\xf1\xc1\xc9\xcd\xd3\xa1\xbf and the 'sh' ignores them at all; I monitored with truss(1) that the shell is reading them from STDIN but the chars are ignored, at least not echoed. Any hints? matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g / D-82041 Oberhaching Fon: ++49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile ++49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/