how to set backquote on PC keyboard telneting to FREEBSD

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 19 August 2005 03:46 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-08-19 12:39, John Williams <jbiddlew at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear LIst,
> >
> > i'm sure this is simple ... I am using a PC to telnet to a FreeBSD
> > system.  The backquote key does not work.  I believe the STTY
> > command is used to set the backquote key on FreeBSD.  Can anyone
> > tell me the STTY command syntax to do this??
>
> Is the "PC" running Windows?
>
> Some installations of Windows use the backquote character as a
> special "accent character", which adds a grave accent "`" mark above
> the next character typed.  If you hit the backquote key and then
> quickly SPACE, a single backquote is then sent to the application
> (and to FreeBSD, through the SSH connection).

I use KDE and then set my keyboard layout to Spanish traditional. It 
provides for the "con acento" such as á, "ñ", and etc. If I press the " 
key and then a letter, I get the equivalent of the umlaut key. Look for 
a layout that specifies "dead keys".

Kent

>
> - Giorgos
>
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