On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:04:20AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > Reply on-list. > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:24:28AM -0800, wah wrote: > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 [email protected] wrote: > > > Are you trying to set keymaps for the console or for X. AFAIK, they're > > > handled seperately. > > > > for the console, until I can get X figured out... > > > > > For console: loadkeys <mapfile> (usually run as root). > > > > > > To get the German keys you are looking for, you will want to try either: > > > > > > loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de.kmap.gz > > > > I did all that, but the non-english chars don't display, unless I use the > > utility showkey, which does display the right keys. > > > > I even tryed setting the kbd_mode to Unicode, still nothing. > > still confused as ever, > > wah > > What shows if not the proper non-standard characters? > > You may want to also look into your console font settings and/or > SVGATextMode. > > man consolechars > man SVGATextMode > > The other thing I noticed when in console mode was that the > international keys (umlauts, etc.) only appeared when I was in an > editor. Not sure if bash filters them out or what is going on. > > -- > Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > > SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html > Mailing list: "subscribe sas-linux" to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Try setting your LANG variable to something other than "C" (default if none specified). Put this in /etc/environment: LANG=en_US # for instance This'll work automatically, but you still need to source it in .bashrc for terminals. Now if I could just figure out how to type extended characters at the bash prompt (Alt-<key>) either does nothing or switches the prompt to (arg: N) where N is some number. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller [email protected] | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
