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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Composing International Characters Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:07:39 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <47jcjb$nbq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47fjfg$a7s@news.puug.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Joao Neves Cabral <jcnc@eppet.eppet.pt> wrote: >My problem now is how to write composed characters. I haven't found >anything related to it in the OS. For example, when I type "'" followed >by "a", I would like to get an "a" with an accent. > >Is this possible under FreeBSD ? If not, will it ever be ? I don't think any of the console drivers does support it yet. I once considered implementing it into the pcvt driver, but eventually left this exercise to somebody else. :) However, if you're running XFree86, it has rudimentary compose character support. You have to tweak your XF86Config file in order to assign some `Compose' key (e.g. use the ScrollLock key for it). >I would also like to contribute with the portuguese keymap file, which >doesn't come with the distribution. To whom should I send it ? To Søren Schmidt, sos@freebsd.org (assuming it's for the default syscons driver). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)