Typing non-ascii characters

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Since I have e-mail correspondence in German and French, I have to be able
to type the non-ascii characters in a Latin-1 font.  Since I found no
xkb documentation, I uncommented the line
	Option  "XkbDisable"
in my XF86Config files, and I wrote a .Xmodmap file (attached).  This
works, but I found no way to make the backspace key work, and type
non-ascii characters.  I can use ^H of course for "rubout".

My distro is a fairly vanilla RHL8.0, and I'm using the two Window keys
on my us-104 keboard as Mode_Switch keys.  Any suggestions how I could
get Backspace to work?

Oswald Wyler <owyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



! Converted keytable file to xmodmap file
! with mk_modmap by root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx vie nov 27 02:24:27 CET 1998
! Modified by owyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 19 June 2003 for personal use
! with latin-1 fonts
clear Mod1
! clear Mod2
! clear Mod3
! clear Mod4
! clear Mod5
!  us.map
!  with some additions from quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Quinlan)
!  14 Mar 1994
! keysym   BackSpace = Control_H
keycode   9 = Escape Escape Escape Escape
keycode  10 = 1 exclam plusminus exclamdown 
keycode  11 = 2 at twosuperior Agrave 
keycode  12 = 3 numbersign threesuperior sterling
keycode  13 = 4 dollar grave currency
keycode  14 = 5 percent mu yen
keycode  15 = 6 asciicircum paragraph THORN
keycode  16 = 7 ampersand periodcentered brokenbar
keycode  17 = 8 asterisk cedilla ordfeminine
keycode  18 = 9 parenleft onesuperior diaeresis
keycode  19 = 0 parenright degree copyright
keycode  20 = minus underscore hyphen ssharp
keycode  21 = equal plus onehalf guillemotleft
keycode  22 = BackSpace Delete
keycode  23 = Tab Tab Tab Tab
keycode  24 = q Q ntilde Ntilde
keycode  25 = w W division multiply
keycode  26 = e E aring Aring
keycode  27 = r R ograve Ograve
keycode  28 = t T ocircumflex Ocircumflex
keycode  29 = y Y ugrave Ugrave
keycode  30 = u U otilde Otilde
keycode  31 = i I eacute Eacute
keycode  32 = o O idiaeresis Idiaeresis
keycode  33 = p P eth Eth
keycode  34 = bracketleft braceleft Ucircumflex ucircumflex
keycode  35 = bracketright braceright Yacute yacute
keycode  36 = Return
keycode  37 = Control_L
keycode  38 = a A aacute Aacute
keycode  39 = s S oacute Oacute
keycode  40 = d D adiaeresis Adiaeresis
keycode  41 = f F ae AE
keycode  42 = g G ccedilla Ccedilla
keycode  43 = h H egrave Egrave
keycode  44 = j J ecircumflex Ecircumflex
keycode  45 = k K ediaeresis Ediaeresis
keycode  46 = l L igrave Igrave
keycode  47 = semicolon colon guillemotright masculine
keycode  48 = apostrophe quotedbl section cent
keycode  49 = grave asciitilde agrave thorn
keycode  50 = Shift_L
keycode  51 = backslash bar Udiaeresis udiaeresis
keycode  52 = z Z uacute Uacute
keycode  53 = x X oslash Ooblique
keycode  54 = c C atilde Atilde
keycode  55 = v V odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode  56 = b B acircumflex Acircumflex
keycode  57 = n N icircumflex Icircumflex
keycode  58 = m M iacute Iacute
keycode  59 = comma less notsign onequarter
keycode  60 = period greater registered threequarters
keycode  61 = slash question macron questiondown
keycode  62 = Shift_R
keycode  63 = KP_Multiply
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode  65 = space nobreakspace
keycode  66 = Caps_Lock
keycode  67 = F1 F11
keycode  68 = F2 F12
keycode  69 = F3 F13
keycode  70 = F4 F14
keycode  71 = F5 F15
keycode  72 = F6 F16
keycode  73 = F7 F17
keycode  74 = F8 F18
keycode  75 = F9 F19
keycode  76 = F10 F20
keycode  77 = Num_Lock
keycode  78 = Scroll_Lock
keycode  79 = KP_7
keycode  80 = KP_8
keycode  81 = KP_9
keycode  82 = KP_Subtract
keycode  83 = KP_4
keycode  84 = KP_5
keycode  85 = KP_6
keycode  86 = KP_Add
keycode  87 = KP_1
keycode  88 = KP_2
keycode  89 = KP_3
keycode  90 = KP_0
keycode  94 = less greater bar
keycode  95 = F11 F11
keycode  96 = F12 F12
keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 112 = KP_Divide
keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R
keycode 114 = Break
keycode 110 = Find
keycode  98 = Up
keycode  99 = Prior
keycode 100 = Left
keycode 102 = Right
keycode 115 = Select
keycode 104 = Down
keycode 105 = Next
keycode 106 = Insert
! Redefine the two windows keys as Mode_switch (or AltGr) keys.
keycode 115 = Mode_switch
keycode 116 = Mode_switch
add Mod1 = Mode_switch
! Redefine the windows-menu key as [Compose key]?
! keycode 117 = Multi_key
! add Mod2 = Multi_key

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