Re: Keyboard troubles...

[Andreas Hetzmannseder <hetzmann@netway.at>]

Christian Pernegger wrote:
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> I've skimmed the German_HOWTO, played with console-tools and generally
> familiarized myself a bit with keymaps and the like - here's what I've
> come up with...
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> The default loaded keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys which is the correct
> one. The relevant entries are:
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> keycode  12 = ssharp            question        backslash
> keycode  26 = +udiaeresis       +Udiaeresis
> keycode  39 = +odiaeresis       +Odiaeresis
> keycode  40 = +adiaeresis       +Adiaeresis
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> As long as "diaeresis" means "umlaut" that should be correct.
> '/usr/bin/showkey -m'
> displays the correct characters for all keys, but the results on the console
> are:
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> ß              does "cursor up"
> ä   Ä      does nothing at all
> ü               beeps
> Ü               does nothing
> ö   Ö      beeps
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> Help!
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> Christian
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To display sharp S and umlauts with bash you may edit a file named
'.inputrc' which contains just three lines:

        set meta-flag on
        set convert-meta off
        set output-meta on

Put this file into your home directory.

I hope this helps.

Andreas