Chris Davies:
> Siard:
> > hvw59601:
> > > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
> >
> > and everyone seems to have missed that.
>
> Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this
> thread.
Yes, I have it working now. In Wheezy (i.e. not in Squeeze yet) the
default keyboard layout as defined in /etc/default/keyboard is shared
between the console and X.
An option like "XKBOPTIONS=" in /etc/default/keyboard is nonetheless
somewhat confusing then; the X in this name would usually indicate that
it only applies to X.
I found a new possible cause for OP's problem.
S/he has en_US.ISO-8859-15 as the only locale.
Now if I use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to set the locale to
en_US.ISO-8859-15, then in /etc/default/locale the LANG option is
commented out.
/etc/default/locale:
#LANG=<whatever was previously here>
With other locales, LANG is set to the preferred language, but en_US is
apparently considered as a default here, without the need to specify it.
But if I set LANG to the correct value, then _that_ makes it work.
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15
For example, in the console, Ctrl+Period then ' then e produces é.
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accented characters in text console
Siard wrote:
Chris Davies:
Siard:
hvw59601:
I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
and everyone seems to have missed that.
Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this
thread.
Yes, I have it working now. In Wheezy (i.e. not in Squeeze yet) the
default keyboard layout as defined in /etc/default/keyboard is shared
between the console and X.
An option like "XKBOPTIONS=" in /etc/default/keyboard is nonetheless
somewhat confusing then; the X in this name would usually indicate that
it only applies to X.
I found a new possible cause for OP's problem.
S/he has en_US.ISO-8859-15 as the only locale.
Now if I use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to set the locale to
en_US.ISO-8859-15, then in /etc/default/locale the LANG option is
commented out.
/etc/default/locale:
#LANG=<whatever was previously here>
With other locales, LANG is set to the preferred language, but en_US is
apparently considered as a default here, without the need to specify it.
But if I set LANG to the correct value, then _that_ makes it work.
LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15
For example, in the console, Ctrl+Period then ' then e produces é.
Nope. /etc/default/locale has LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15 and yet Ctrl+period
and ' and e does not produce the right result.
Hugo
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> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="gb"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>
> Notice that even though I chose the 105 key (Intl) keyboard, I do not
> have an XKBVARIANT even though Compose is enabled and works. Mind you,
> I've never really understood what the XKBVARIANT=intl is intended to
> do for US and UK keyboards, as I use a Compose key to get my non-UK
> characters.
On a PC here Ctrl+. works as Compose with
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
I get "Dead" keys with
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="intl"
XKBOPTIONS=""
(I don't use this)
My LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Regards,
Howard E.
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