Re: Latin1 characters...
Did you try the compose-key (cntrl-.) to compose characters like öê etc?
I should work in the console. If not try another keymap-file from
your kernel sources. In X I use Cntrl-Scrlck to do the same.
Johann
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> When writing in Vim in and an X session, I can type use the Alt (Meta)
> key to get special characters into the text, such as »µ£ etc. However,
> if I use VIM at the console, it interprets Alt-<key> behaviour much
> differently. It can display such characters fine, I just can't type them
> in. I'm not sure if this is a VIM specific thing, or a console thing.
> I set my locale info to en_US, and the default console font to iso01.f16
> I suspect it's a difference between X and console, but I must be missing
> something in the configs on how to get the rest of those iso-latin1
> chars.
>
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