Re: Extend Caracter Map on Linux

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tux wrote:


> How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only
> the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete
> extended IBM caracters map to run a application.

I had the same problem.  Compose did not work.  So I replaced my
/etc/kbd/default.map.gz with one of the keyboard maps from the kernel
source.  I think I used
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.9/drivers/char/defkeymap.map, gzipped it and
renamed it to /etc/kbd/default.map.gz.

I hope this helps.

Johann.
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