Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:57:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gmarco@masternet.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: * Italian Keyboard * Message-ID: <199601261757.KAA04900@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960126125858.006ad578@masternet.it> from "Gianmarco Giovannelli" at Jan 26, 96 01:58:58 pm
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> > > I made the file for italian keyboard, but I have problems with italian > particular keys ... > > Studying other keyboards that come with Bsd I did it in this way : [ ... ] > Now I put the ascii code for italian keys, but I begin to thinks some is > wrong with it. > i.e. > > 039 149 135 nop nop '@' nop nop nop O > > 149 is the ascii of o with an accent on it... and 135 is another strnge > simbol... > > Linux use for this line a such definition : > > keycode 39 = ograve ccedilla at > control keycode 39 = nul > alt keycode 39 = Meta_at > control alt keycode 39 = Meta_nul > > Is perhaps a Shell (tsch) problem with this strange keys ? Or is the > keyboard definition that is wrong...? Is 139 the ISO 8859-1 character for 'o + grave accent', or is it the "DOS Extended ASCII" character? Typically, this will be a problem for you if the character code does not match the loaded console font. For email interoperability, I'd suggest using an ISO 8859-1 character set for your console. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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