Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-21, Chris Davies wrote: > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="gb" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > Notice that even though I chose the 105 key (Intl) keyboard, I do not > have an XKBVARIANT even though Compose is enabled and works. Mind you, > I've never

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: 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

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread Siard
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 Squee

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I reme

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I reme

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
>> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) Siard wrote: > and everyone seems to have missed that. Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this thread. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Siard
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I remember at least o

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:58:34 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I > used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no > idea how I did that. > > The keyboard is a US keyboard. > > At the moment /etc/default/keyboard show

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Doug wrote: On 06/20/2012 06:58 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows:

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life i

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life is just a little simpl

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
hvw59601 wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) > The keyboard is a US keyboard. > At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="us" > XKBVARIANT="intl" > #XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-20 Thread Doug
On 06/20/2012 06:58 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: XKBMODEL="pc1