From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 09:04:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29446 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:04:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA29434 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA15899; Thu, 23 Jan 97 18:06:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 18:06:08 +0100 Message-Id: <9701231706.AA15899@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Jake Hamby on Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:24:54 -0800 (PST)) Subject: Re: How to type French characters in XFree86? X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Jake Hamby writes: > I can't figure out how to set up XFree86 2.2 to allow me to type the > French characters (i, h, j, g, etc.) from a US keyboard mapping. The XKB > extension is confusing and poorly documented, and it doesn't seem to help > to disable it. I would like to have a Compose key like the one on the > Sun-5 keyboard I'm using to type this message. To get i, I type Compose, > then ', then e. Thanks in advance for your help! This worked with the 3.1 server but I have been unable to find how to make it work with the latest version :-( However, if your are using emacs, there exist packages to easily type accented characters (I use electric-accents). Outside emacs (and maybe in vi) you can type Alt+somekey to get accents (eg Alt-i to get e-acute) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, BeOS, or NT, eh? | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "This space intentionally left blank." Jean-Marc _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================