Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

>Kaixo!
>Li Fri, 18 Jan 2002 05:22:54 +0100,
> guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scr�jheut:
>
> g> Contrary to you I think the problem is in how XF86 and KDE cooperates.
> g> in /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.se I have:
> g> !charset "iso-8859-1"
>
>No, that is just a comment (and that file is not used by KDE btw,
>but /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/se)
>
> g> and in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/se I have:
> g>    // and all of ISO-8859-1 characters available.
>
>A comment too.
>
>X11 keyboard definition files are independent of any charset. They use
>symbolic names (keysyms).
>
>Now, of course, only those chars that are present in the charset you are
>using will be produced, as for the others, even if the keyboard sends
>something, X11 cannot convert it to your charset encoding.
>
>
>The KDE problem comes from the fact that, while KDE ignores any locale
>setting for almost everything, it uses the value of LANG variable for
>the keyboard.
>
>If you have LANG=nl look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locales.alias
>and you will see something like:
>
>nl:    nl_NL.ISO-8859-1
>
>change it to:
>
>nl:    nl_NL.ISO-8859-15
>
>or change the value of LANG variable, and it will work.
>
Pablo,

On the subject of variables, can you tell us what the  LANGUAGE variable 
is exactly for and explain the syntax a bit.

Thanks,
Guy.



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