On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:56:56 -0600 (CST) Theodore Kilgore <kilgota@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First, I am glad that mouse-copying reproduces the accent in your > name. If you can help explain how to reproduce such things by typing > while using apine over an ssh connection, using a standard US > keyboard, I would be glad of the explanation. My wife is Hungarian, > and I am thus very sensitized to the importance of the question, how > to do the accents required for writing Hungarian properly. Hello Theodore, I am also using a US keyboard and I have no problem with accents and utf-8. You must define the character encoding to 'UTF-8' and the font codeset to 'Lat2' (central Europe). The locale must be set to 'en_US.UTF-8'. Eventually, you may use the compose mechanism setting the compose character to a specific key. In Debian, this in done at installation time, but it may be changed by dpkg-reconfigure or by hand. The character encoding and the font codeset are in the file /etc/default/console-setup. The locale is defined in the file /etc/default/locale. For the keyboard, in X, I set the 'compose' keyboard option to 'rwin', i.e. the right 'ms-windows' key. This is defined in the file /etc/default/keyboard or /etc/default/console-setup: XKBOPTIONS="compose:rwin" To insert a composed character, press/release left-rwin, then the accent and then the character. The compose sequences may be found in the file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-2.inc. Cheers. -- Ken ar c'hentañ | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** Jef | http://moinejf.free.fr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
