Getting special characters ...
2007-12-25 11:54:00
Valentin Popa <Val.Popa@east.sun.com>
Bernt Christandl <beb@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE>
The solution suggested by Bernt Christandl
worked and is :
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as usual with unix, there are many ways to heaven, but none that can
garantuee that you arrive there...
The best way on suns to write things like \344 \370 \351 \346 \347 ...
would be to have an original sun-keyboard with those 10 extra-keys
on the left side, one being the "SunCompose"-Key.
Then you should be able to "compose" the above (and many more)
characters (hitting "SunCompose" and then 2 other characters, which should
be "overlayed": "a" and "e" give "\346", "c" and "," give "\347" and so on)
The second best way, the one i use on my Linux-box, is to use "xev"
and "xmodmap" to re-define an (nearly) unused key on your keyboard
to act as a "SunCompose"-Key.
With "xev" you can see the "key-number" and "key-name" of your keys.
(That not really correct, but for me it's enough)
The output would be something like
KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x3800002, time 2169658793, (30,42), root:(1062,68),
state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyRelease event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
root 0x2a, subw 0x3800002, time 2169658858, (30,42), root:(1062,68),
state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
That means, my key "113" acts as "Multi_key", which *is* "SunCompose",
which i achieved with this command:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = SunCompose'
But be careful! This number ("113") is usually not the same on different
keyboards or for different OSses! So, if you put it into your .login
(or similar) file, then you suddenly may notice an unexpected failure
of an often used key, if you sit at another keyboard. (This way
i once disbled my "v" and wondered until i've learned my error.)
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The original question:
Working on intel solaris 7 and 8 with a normal
104 keys keyboard.
Is there anyway to generate special characters
like a,e,i,o,u with a dash on top of each of them
and umlauts and so on.. ?
TIA. Will summarize.
regards
Pravin
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