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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120623132009.870013c0.shiems...@kpnplanet.nl
