On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote:
> In Keyboard HOWTO I found this:
>
> ...
>
> 8.5. Composing symbols
>
> One symbol may be constructed using several keystrokes.
>
> o LeftAlt-press, followed by a decimal number typed on the keypad,
> followed by LeftAlt-release, yields the symbol with code given by
> this number. (In Unicode mode this same mechanism, but then with 4
> hexadecimal digits, may be used to define a Unicode symbol.)
>
> ...
>
> I have tried LeftAlt with numbers from keypad and the others,
> I tried RightAlt, windows keys, menu key, anything else I could
> imagine. If press LeftAlt key and I type 123 and then I release
> LeftAlt I don't get {, but instead I get 123 in the same time I
> type it not after I release the LeftAlt key.
>
> I would like to know if this feature is working for someone
> on the list.
>
Thank you all for your answers.
I have the solution to my problem. I simply needed this:
alt keycode 71 = Ascii_7
alt keycode 72 = Ascii_8
alt keycode 73 = Ascii_9
alt keycode 75 = Ascii_4
alt keycode 76 = Ascii_5
alt keycode 77 = Ascii_6
alt keycode 79 = Ascii_1
alt keycode 80 = Ascii_2
alt keycode 81 = Ascii_3
alt keycode 82 = Ascii_0
in my /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and now leftAlt + numbers
from KP (whatever the status of NumLock is) give the the symbol
coresponding to the decimal ascii code I type.
LeftAlt press KP_1 KP_2 KP_3 LeftAlt release -> {
It would be nice if this feature can be enabled on the X as
well, but from the list of symbols in
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
it was not possible to find something equivalent to Ascii_1
from the console.
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
