ohnielse@ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen) (10/08/90)
With SunOS 4.1 and Type-4 keyboards we now can use international characters due to the new 8-bit support. However, the use of this feature, which is most interesting to Europeans and others as well, appears totally undocumented in the SunOS 4.1 manual set. I have so far managed to figure out, that you can enable keyboard input of 8-bit characters by "stty pass8". I have also by trial and error learned that, for example, the keystroke sequence Compose-a-e will give me a beautiful Danish letter. But WHY, oh why, is there no manual section describing how to enable the Compose feature, and where is the complete table of Compose codes and the extended 8-bit ASCII code table ? And what is the use of the features documented in locale(5) ? And what are the keyboard layouts (images of the keyboard, I mean) that you get by loading national key mappings with loadkeys(1) ? After all, these trivial questions were all thoroughly documented years ago on DEC systems, when the VT-220 terminals first appeared on the market. Just check the manual that comes with any DEC terminal ! Could someone from Sun, or anyone with the required knowledge, provide me (and the Sun community) with answers to the above questions. A little manual describing International Features would be just great !! With best regards, Ole H. Nielsen Laboratory of Applied Physics, Building 307 Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark E-mail: OHNielsen@ltf.dth.dk Telephone: (+45) 42 88 24 88 ext. 3187 Telefax: (+45) 45 93 23 99