Hi Linus, On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 01:58:58AM +0200, Linus Nilsson wrote: > I'm using Debain Linux and do most of my work in console mode. > I use us keymap and i wonder what i have to do to be able to write > eight_bit characters. In X alt is bound to meta and that works just > fine, but in console-mode holding in alt while writing seems to have no > effect whatsover.
In the console you can use digraphs ( <specialkey><key1><key2> results in <some8bitchar>, e.g. ctrl-. a ' results in รก. This is documented in the "keyboard and console HOWTO" (http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html) and the documentation of the "kbd" package (/usr/doc/kbd/*). HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
