drapeau@jessica.stanford.edu (George D. Drapeau) (03/29/89)
We have a French professor here who would like to use X for one of his classes, part of which would mean the students typing French on the workstations. I would like to know how I can map the keyboard so that students could get access to the diacritical characters in some of the fonts. If you type, for example, xfd '*times-medium-r-normal--18*' with an R3 server, you'll see the characters I'm talking about. I've looked at the man page for 'xmodmap' and typed 'xmodmap -pk'. The information I'm given is that only keycodes 8 through 129 are available to me, but the diacriticals are obviously not included in that range. I should mention that I'm on a Sun4; I don't know if that'll make any difference. Perhaps the Sun sample server only supports the range I mentioned. Is that limitation only with the Sun server? Is there anything I can do to get access to those diacriticals? Thanks in advance, ______________________________________________________________________________ George D. Drapeau Internet: drapeau@jessica.stanford.edu Academic Information Resources Stanford University
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/29/89)
I've looked at the man page for 'xmodmap' and typed 'xmodmap -pk'.
The information I'm given is that only keycodes 8 through 129 are
available to me, but the diacriticals are obviously not included in
that range.
Keycodes are NOT the same as character codes. Keys are labelled with
keysyms, and the keysyms are the basis of translation to characters.
The simplest way to get diacriticals is to relabel your some of your
keys (e.g. using xmodmap) so that diacritical keysyms are somewhere on the keyboard.