From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 17:39:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7F737BB33 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA08654 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:39:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA20504 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:15:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Date: 16 Mar 2000 02:15:33 +0100 Message-ID: <8apcjl$k0b$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <200003152132.WAA00696@peedub.muc.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Peter Losher writes: > > >xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0A = 1 oslash" > > > >(Map the 'Shift-1' key from a ! to a oslash) > > > >When I do the xmodmap, and I press 'Shift-1' in xterm, I get nothing. Works for me. > >Is there some configuration setting that I am missing? Your shell--or in whatever program you are trying to type--may be set up to eat 8-bit characters. Equally for your tty. Finally, your terminal may use a font that lacks the required glyphs. Okay, let's approach this step by step. What program are you typing this in? > I don't think it's quite that simple. In my experience you definitely > need to have a Mode_shift key to get this sort of thing to work right. Please don't increase the confusion. ("ModeShift" is only used in XF86Config) is only required to access the second group, i.e. the third and fourth character you specify with xmodmap. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message