Dear List,
The following problem is mostly of interest to Scandinavians,
so now you are warned:-)
Up here we use a few accented characters quite much. In X the
lower case charcters are called ae, oslash, aring, adiaeresis
and odiaeresis. For many reasons, at the Niels Bohr Institute
we prefer to use US keyboards. In order to generate our special
characters one can then use e.g. Compose a * for the aring etc.
and this works fine as far as I can tell. Another way is to
define them with xmodmap with input lines like, e.g.
keycode 79 = F10 odiaeresis Odiaeresis
which means that pushing F10 generates F10 but Shift F10 gives
odiaeresis (the middle character in my name), and Shift CapLock
F10 gives the corresponding upper-case character. This works also
fine everywhere as far as I can tell. Now,
keycode 63 = F8 aring Aring
has the desired effect in xterm, dxterm and dxnotepad windows. For
at least dxmail and dxcalendar nothing happens. I can change the
definition to use any F-key for aring with the same negative result.
Also, as a parenthesis, after we upgraded our VMS systems to Motif
1.2-3, the same happens to DECW$MAIL, both when I display on my
own OSF/1 workstation or on a VMS workstation.
xev confirms that my settings are correct; it displays the aring.
So, what is special with the aring character in these DEC environments?
Or, are the mail and calendar applications the culprits? Any help
is appreciated.
My own workstation is a AlphaStation 200 4/166 running OSF/1 3.2A
using a LK411-AA keyboard.
Thanks,
Bjorn
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Bjorn S. Nilsson Email: Bjorn.S.Nilsson_at_nbi.dk
Niels Bohr Institute or just nilsson_at_nbi.dk
Blegdamsvej 17
DK-2100 Copenhagen Phone: +45 35 32 52 83
Denmark Fax: +45 31 42 10 16
Received on Sat Sep 09 1995 - 11:48:12 NZST