Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:01:18 +0100 From: Allan Wermuth <none@alw--it-service.sdu.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk Subject: Re: Trouble with different langage in freebsd
* on the Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:27:59PM +0059, Allan Wermuth was tippering:
> * on the Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:22:57AM +0059, Allan Wermuth was tippering:
> > * on the Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:56:52AM +0100, Arnå DG was tippering:
> > >
> > > My little issue is the following: I am french, I run freebsd 6.0
> > > stable in english and on a danish DellLaptop Inspiron 510m...
> > >
> > > 1. when using terms (xterm, mrxvt, Eterm...) I cannot use any
> > > non-english characters (such as danish ø,æ... and french é, û...)
> >
> > I have this in my xorg.conf
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > Option "XkbLayout" "dk"
> > EndSection
> >
> > And following in my /etc/profile
> >
> > LANG=da_DK.ISO8859-1; export LANG
> > MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSET
> >
> > set meta-flag On
> > set convert-meta Off
> > set output-meta On
> >
> > You should also read the BSD-DK FAQ - http://www.batmule.dk/BSD-DK/BSD-DK_FAQ.txt
> > especially question nr. 3.
> >
>
> This advise works on my FreeBSD box, but it doesn't work on my laptop, where I have
> installed OpenBSD 3.8
>
> Most of the time I dosn't care, as long as I still can write æ,ø and å in my default
> editor vi, which I use for writing mails. But it's annoying, that I can't se any æ, ø
> and å in xchat.
>
> I have googled around, and read OpenBSD FAQ but didn't find any solution to this problem.
> Anyone who knows the magic tricks to make et work?
>
Sorry for bothering everybody on the list. I finally found the solution.
Placing "set +o emacs-usemeta" in ~/.profile did the trick.
-- Allan Wermuth
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