spanish chars in FreeBSD commands
Matthias Apitz
guru at Sisis.de
Wed Sep 14 02:32:23 PDT 2005
Hi,
I speak and write Spanish and for this I need support of
the Spanish special chars in FreeBSD; for this in SuSE Linux
I've used some xmodmap's to get the chars by pressing, for
example, the Windows-key + 'a' to get the char 'á'; the commands
are:
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x73 = Mode_switch"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x39 = n N ntilde Ntilde"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1a = e E eacute Eacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x26 = a A aacute Aacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1f = i I iacute Iacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1e = u U uacute Uacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x20 = o O oacute Oacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x14 = questiondown question backslash ssharp"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0a = 1 exclam exclamdown onesuperior"
they work in FreeBSD with Xorg as well but some FreeBSD commands
don't show the chars very well:
$ cat espanol
áéíóñÁÉÍÓ¡¿
$ od -c espanol
0000000 341 351 355 363 361 301 311 315 323 241 277 \n
0000014
$ more espanol
<E1><E9><ED><F3><F1><C1><C9><CD><D3><A1><BF>
$ vi espanol
\xe1\xe9\xed\xf3\xf1\xc1\xc9\xcd\xd3\xa1\xbf
and the 'sh' ignores them at all; I monitored with truss(1) that
the shell is reading them from STDIN but the chars are ignored, at
least not echoed. Any hints?
matthias
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