[quoted lines by Jean-Philippe MENGUAL on 2010/08/13 at 16:47 +0200] >I had not tried because generally, I try first to have such combinations >worked on tty before trying on X.
Even if it works on a tty, you still need to tell X about it with xmodmap. The two don't use the same mapping mechanism. >But as you suggested, I tried, and I'm >surprised. In an UTF-8 environment (e.g. Evolution, but also OOo 3.2 as >I've just seen (I thought it was ISO)), I get → ← respectively for U2192 >and U2190. So it now works. That's good. >In an ISO-8859-15 environment (gnome-terminal, weechat-curses >with gnome-terminal), the combination produces -> and <- That's because, now that you've defined them with xmodmap, X knows what the characters are, but they can't actually be displayed in ISO-8859-15 so textual equivalents are being used. >And in pure tty, nothing happens. As long as your tty is using UTF-8, and as long as your text table defines the characters, I'm sure they're being entered when you type them. The problem, however, is that ISO-8859-15 can't display them. Basic tty support, unlike X, doesn't use a textual equivalent when the character set being used doesn't define a character. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | 2011 May 21 is the Day of Judgement. EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | 2011 Oct 21 is the End of the World. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
