-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
> Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order > to be able to use accented characters, etc. ? No. > Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ? > If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ? It depends. If you are not using X, you should load a console font for your character set. For example, I need iso-8859-1 and I have the following executable file /etc/rc.boot/0consolefont: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/setfont iso01.f16 There are a lot of fonts to choose from. See /usr/share/consolefonts. Loading of console fonts was once supported by the kbd package, but currently it is not and you have to do it yourself (it is supported by "svgatextmode", but I don't want to use the whole package, I'm happy using plain 80x25 :-). Another thing you can do is to make an ~/.inputrc file for bash/readline. Here is the mine: "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[4~": end-of-line set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on set bell-style none [ First three lines make Home, End and Delete keys to work "as usual" ]. BTW: It is very likely that bash/readline in the next Debian release will support /etc/inputrc as global configuration file (currently it does only look for ~/.inputrc in the user's home directory). Moreover I have this in my /etc/profile: export LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 but I'm not sure whether it is still needed or not (some time ago, bash needed it, now I would have to check it). Hope this helps, if only a little bit. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNDUVPCqK7IlOjMLFAQErIQP/ecb68OE1Ra2Kqx4w5z7uqjiEXHIQt3st z9iqCiA9DpTJcTH7KMezV1Ya4J+cxDb3/Kdt0tKznSqW+lEL7r+r0nAFwQO2Yrj2 GbCwyPYlcm7Fuqp4NsP+hScZ3UVrfr3gZbC/he4Qd7fnj/7688sdmcmqMz+EOE0b E14yVDQx3B0= =SZOJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
