Re: accented characters in text console
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:58:34 -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I
> used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no
> idea how I did that.
>
> The keyboard is a US keyboard.
>
> At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows:
>
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="intl"
> #XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>
> BACKSPACE="guess"
>
> Hitting the ' key just produces the ' character.
That sound right, you need to add a vowel, e.g.:
"'" + "a" will return an accented "á"
> Compose key + ' produces a beep.
>
> Cntrl + . then ' and any other character produces a ÿ.
>
> /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15.
Additional tips on how to compose things when using "us-intl", here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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