From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 1:32:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (peedub.muc.de [193.149.49.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690DE37B992 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA24247; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:07:17 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003150907.KAA24247@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Peter Losher Cc: Erik Trulsson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:07:17 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Losher writes: >Yeah, I do get that, however, it would be more useful if I could just ad= d >the Norwegian characters to a copy of the us.iso.kbd (perhaps call it >personal.kbd). So to get a "a ring" I would do a 'ALT-!' and for a "o >slash", a 'ALT-@', and so on. > >Is this possible? > >(BTW, thanks for your message!) > Install the xkeycaps port and use it to define a Mode_switch key (I use End). With a Mode_switch as modifier you can map any key to any character using xkeycaps. Then use xmodmap to load the new keymap when you start X. I have a US keyboard, but with the Mode_switch key in combination with others I can input: =FC=F6=E4=DC=D6=C4=DF --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message