Re: IS THIS A BUG ???

[Denice <Denice Deatrich epfl ch>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Pieter Wenk wrote:

> I tri again with hope to get an answer to my question.
> 
> How can I set accents like ^ or ´ ? Sounds simple, but does not work although
> the correct keyboard is installed. 
> 
> For the country were I live it's CH_fr. 
> 
> éöàäèü are perfectly working.
> 
> But to write words like h^opital, ^etre, ^oter etc., is not working.  
> 
> Perhaps somebody has an idea how to correct this....


There is a detailed french how-to (I'm not sure how up-to-date it is):

  http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/French-HOWTO.html


A quick and not-so-elegant solution is to xmodmap the ISO dead_* keysyms
to 'free' keys, being careful not to pick keys that upset Motif-based
apps, like Netscape.  You don't want all those annoying popup dialogs
complaining about not being able to convert keysyms to keycodes...

 http://help.netscape.com/kb/client/960514-89.html

xkeycaps  (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/) is a marvelous utility for
exploring and customizing your keyboard.  You can use it to edit
keymappings.  Just pick the ISO charset, and then the 'dead*' char that
you want to map (and write out only the changed Keys to your .xmodmap
file).

For example, this is a .xmodmap file that maps the circumflex
char to F11, and the cedilla to F12  You can obviously map all the ISO 
dead* chars if you can find enough unused keys.

To make 'ô' you press F11 and then 'o'  You would need to invoke the
mapping from one of your startup files.  It should work if you name the
file .Xmodmap (see /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession);  but if you want host-specific
mappings then you should invoke it from a startup script:
 xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmap-`uname -n`

--
$ cat  .xmodmap-MY_HOST_NAME
!
! This is an `xmodmap' input file for 
!   PC 105 key, wide Delete, tall Enter (XFree86; US) keyboards.
! Automatically generated on Thu Aug 12 11:57:19 1999 by deatrich with
! XKeyCaps 2.45; Copyright (c) 1999 Jamie Zawinski <jwz jwz org>.
! http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
!
keycode 0x5F =  dead_circumflex
keycode 0x60 =  dead_cedilla

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