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.
