Re: Knoppix 6.4.4 and the X11 Compose Key
Hello Klaus,
Thanks you for your reply, which suggested a few more things to try.
I've stumbled on a solution.
I am slightly unusual: when I install Linux (e.g. Debian), I select
keyboard US but language/location British/UK.
With Knoppix, I always used to let the boot default to lang=us. I'd
read about the chap who tried lang=uk and got a dead Ukrainian keyboard
so I wasn't going to try that.
I removed lang=us from the lines in syslinux.cfg and tried to find a
combination that worked by changing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and friends
instead of editing knoppix-autoconfig, which is what I probably should
have done.
I tried LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 as that is what I have under Debian. Knoppix
does not like this one bit. The bash shell keeps complaining that it
cannot set the locale. Neither en_US.UTF-8 nor en.UTF-8 work but
fi_FI.UTF-8 does. I speculated (for I was really on the edge of what I
do know) that this is to do with how internalisation is compiled into
Knoppix to keep down the size.
I gave up this approach leaving just LANG=en_GB, more or less, by
accident. Somehow this gets changed to LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 by the
time I get to open a virtual terminal and the compose key now works as
expected. So the issue is a locale issue.
So, for the record, I'm now running with:
LANG="en_GB"
COUNTRY="gb"
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en"
CHARSET="utf8"
This last I should probably change to iso8859-1but I am running Eclipse
and Python and exchanging sources files in several programming languages
with Windows and other Linux systems that are using Unicode.
I also have (note my eccentric choice of keyboards)
KEYTABLE="us" # instead of uk meaning the United Kingdom
XKEYBOARD="us,gb"
KDEKEYBOARD="us,gb"
KDEKEYBOARDS=""
This last appears to be obsolete under KDE 4.
Regards
-Klaus
Regards,
Paul
P.S. I had a nice row of four penguins early in the boot of 6.4.3 but
these have disappeared in 6.4.4. I hope they come back soon.
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