I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I
used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no
idea how I did that.
Cntrl + . then ' and any other character produces a ÿ.
/etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
Hugo
If you have a compose key (or if you don't then make one,
out of the right control key, or a Microsoft key, if you have one)
then you are half way there. By half, I mean that you have to
key in two characters AFTER compose. Like this:
(compose) " o and get ö or (compose) ' e for è or whatever. Note that
you don't hold the compose key--you strike it, and then fairly quickly,
enter the two characters that make up the desired glyph.
Most glyphs are made of things that look like they go together.
A few don't: you need (compose) s s ß and get the German
ess-tset character. You can also get €, and ¢ and ¥ and £
and fractions ½ ⅓ ¼ and 78° Fahrenheit--that's (compose) o o.
so now you know.
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hvw59601 <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
> The keyboard is a US keyboard.
> At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows:
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="intl"
> #XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminat e:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> Hitting the ' key just produces the ' character.
> Compose key + ' produces a beep.
> Cntrl + . then ' and any other character produces a ÿ.
> /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
This probably doesn't help much but here is my comparable configuration,
which does work when I try things like, for example, Compose ' i (three
separate key presses; Compose is *not* like Shift or Control).
Running dgpk-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, I chose these settings:
Model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
Layout: United Kingdom
AltGr: The default for the keyboard layout
Compose: Right Alt (AltGr)
Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate: Yes
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.
Chris
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06-21-2012, 01:13 PM
Jon Dowland
accented characters in text console
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
> /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to
move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life
is just a little simpler that way.
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06-21-2012, 02:22 PM
hvw59601
accented characters in text console
Jon Dowland wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
/etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to
move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life
is just a little simpler that way.
Indeed, but I run some ancient graphics apps. that don't do well with
UTF-8 :-(
Hugo
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I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I
used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no
idea how I did that.
Cntrl + . then ' and any other character produces a ÿ.
/etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
Hugo
If you have a compose key (or if you don't then make one,
out of the right control key, or a Microsoft key, if you have one)
then you are half way there. By half, I mean that you have to
key in two characters AFTER compose. Like this:
(compose) " o and get ö or (compose) ' e for è or whatever. Note that
you don't hold the compose key--you strike it, and then fairly quickly,
enter the two characters that make up the desired glyph.
Most glyphs are made of things that look like they go together.
A few don't: you need (compose) s s ß and get the German
ess-tset character. You can also get €, and ¢ and ¥ and £
and fractions ½ ⅓ ¼ and 78° Fahrenheit--that's (compose) o o.
so now you know.
Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work.
Hugo
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:58:34 -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I
> used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no
> idea how I did that.
>
> The keyboard is a US keyboard.
>
> At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows:
>
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="intl"
> #XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminat e:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>
> BACKSPACE="guess"
>
> Hitting the ' key just produces the ' character.
That sound right, you need to add a vowel, e.g.:
"'" + "a" will return an accented "á"
> Compose key + ' produces a beep.
>
> Cntrl + . then ' and any other character produces a ÿ.
>
> /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
Additional tips on how to compose things when using "us-intl", here:
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06-21-2012, 05:46 PM
Siard
accented characters in text console
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
> Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work.
Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote:
> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
and everyone seems to have missed that.
I remember at least one method to enter accented characters in a text
console, it's the same as in Windows:
Keep Alt pressed while entering the decimal code in the numerical
keypad.
For example, Alt + 246 produces ö. It works here (Wheezy).
Codes can be found in the manpage of iso-8859-1.
There are probably better ways, but I don't remember them at the moment.
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06-21-2012, 10:27 PM
Chris Davies
accented characters in text console
>> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:
> and everyone seems to have missed that.
Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this
thread.
Chris
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06-22-2012, 12:27 PM
hvw59601
accented characters in text console
Siard wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work.
Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote:
I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!)
and everyone seems to have missed that.
I remember at least one method to enter accented characters in a text
console, it's the same as in Windows:
Keep Alt pressed while entering the decimal code in the numerical
keypad.
For example, Alt + 246 produces ö. It works here (Wheezy).
Codes can be found in the manpage of iso-8859-1.
There are probably better ways, but I don't remember them at the moment.
Good idea. Unfortunately doesn't work here (also Wheezy).
Hugo
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