Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:32:37PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote: > > >> That thread is from early 2005... Does it still applies to the current >> kernel ? >> > > I don't know. > > >> You use lat2-16 fonf. That means that it does not have an utf8 mapping. >> Usually the ones that end with 'u', like lat9u-16.psfu.gz already have >> it. Am I correct ? >> > > setfont automatically adds the extension. This file is actially > lat2-16.psfu, so it does contain Unicode mapping. > > >> I retrieved it from my own system. I have pt-latin1 and >> compose.latin1.add with all includes. >> > > Okay, but do you know what keyboard layout these files are supposed to > implement? Yes. > I bet you do have expectations like "this or that key should > produce this or that letter". Or rather in the reverse way: "I need these > accented letters, and they should be accessible by these particular keys or > key sequences...". So I'm still curious: do you really plan to use dead keys > or combining keys, or just simple keys for accented letters? >
I was planning to use dead keys in combination with the simple keys to produce the accented key I want. If possible, all of them. > >>> Just for curiosity: please try the exact commands I gave you above, then run >>> the command "cat" and press the "main" letters on your keyboard. You should >>> see something like this: >>> 0123456789öüó >>> qwertzuiopőú >>> asdfghjkléáű >>> íyxcvbnm,.- >>> Do you get these accented vowels there? >>> >>> >> No, I do not get any accented characters. >> > > Now this is strange, and at this moment I have no idea where to look at. > > Did the commands all succeed? Are you root? Are you executing these from the > real console (not from mc, screen, su...)? Please confirm that you really > typed these letters to the command "cat". > Sorry. It does work. I was issuing the command on bash, and not on cat. So it works :) > What happens when you hit those keys that are supposed to print accented > letters? Is simply this keystroke ignored? Or a question mark printed? Or > what else? > > > -- Cumprimentos *Rui Santos* Dep. Testes *GrupoPIE Portugal, S.A.* Tel: +351 252 290 600 Fax: +351 252 290 601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: www.grupopie.com <http://www.grupopie.com/> /WinREST /EVERYWHERE -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
