On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that
has them, because I can see them in X.
Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and
paste the page at
http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/accents.htm
into vim. 'file accents.txt' says 'UTF-8 Unicode text'
The file was transferred to a machine with the same console and keyboard
settings as you have. It displayed faithfully with less, vim and cat.
You might think of attaching the file to a mail you send to the list.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
#XKBVARIANT=""
#XKBOPTIONS=""
XKBVARIANT="intl"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
What comes next probably has nothing to do with the issue: compose:rctrl
is said by 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' not to work in
Unicode Mode (console-setup has 'CHARMAP="UTF-8"').