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Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?



On August 26, 2004 00:21, David Wright wrote:
> Thanks for the tip! It works.
>
> Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a
> slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the
> Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could
> be reproduced. Is there some reason the Debian standard xmodmap.us
> doesn't ship this way? (And, or course, all the other xmodmap.XX files
> with the corresponding Windows conventions for those locales?) Is it
> just an aversion to anything Microsoft has done, or is there some better
> reason not to do this?

I think you would find this of interest, it is what I used to set up my 
keyboard http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/software/x11/xmodmap_en/

Hope this helps,
RJP



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