On 2003-12-07 22:43:39 +0000 Grahame Leon-Smith at Free Computers
I understand that you can type the Esperanto characters in Linux, does anyone know how ?
I used to be able to work this in X 3.3.6 using xmodmap, but X 4.3 seems to need different incantations. I have a keymap file that works if used from the command-line with setxkbmap, but not from XF86Config. If anyone has some useful pointers on that, I'd appreciate it. If not, I'll continue experimenting. Fortunately, there is another way. If you add XkbOptions "compose:rwin" pressing the right symbol key next to AltGr will allow you to type two characters on top of each other. So, symbol ^ c produces the c-circumflex and so on. symbol b u produces u-breve. The same effect can be had from "setxkbmap -option compose:rwin" at the prompt. You should use utf-8 locale (export LANG=en_GB.utf-8 in your startups, or eo.utf-8 if you have esperanto locale files and want esperanto messages) and have unicode fonts (iso10646-1) installed for this to work, but that may be default in your system. Some desktops (including KDE, I think) have their own settings too. A FAQ about utf-8 is at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html When I have the keymap file working, I'll document it and publish it. I'll try to remember to announce it here as well as in sce. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/