Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 18:06:08 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to type French characters in XFree86? Message-ID: <9701231706.AA15899@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970122162215.11736A-100000@aris> (message from Jake Hamby on Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:24:54 -0800 (PST))
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>>>>> 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)
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> |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, BeOS, or NT, eh? |
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> "This space intentionally left blank."
Jean-Marc
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