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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 International character sets in specific applications</A></H2>

<P>A number of applications demand special attention. This section descibes how to set up configuration filesfor them.</P> <P> <UL> <LI><CODE>bash</CODE> v.1.13+ : Put the following in your <CODE>.inputrc</CODE> file <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

</LI> <LI><CODE>tcsh</CODE>: Put the following in your <CODE>/etc/csh.login</CODE> or <CODE>.tcshrc</CODE> file <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> setenv LC_CTYPE ISO-8859-1 stty pass8 </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

</LI> <LI><CODE>less</CODE>: Set the following environment variable <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> LESSCHARSET=latin1 </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

</LI> <LI><CODE>elm</CODE>: Set the following environment variables <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> LANG=C LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

</LI> <LI><CODE>emacs</CODE>: Put the following in your <CODE>.emacs</CODE> or the <CODE>/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/default.el</CODE> file: <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> (standard-display-european t)

(set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 0) </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

</LI> <LI> TeX / LaTeX: Cribbed from the ISO 8859-1 FAQ by Michael Gschwind <CODE><mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at></CODE>:

In LaTeX 2.09, use <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

to include support for ISO latin1 characters. In LaTeX2e, the commands <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

will do the job. <CODE>isolatin.sty</CODE> is available from all CTAN servers and from URL <CODE>ftp://ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/pub/8bit</CODE>. </LI> </UL> </P>

<H2><A NAME="glyphs"></A> <A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 International character sets in specific applications</A>What characters you can display under Linux </H2>

<P>Type <CODE>dumpkeys -l | less</CODE> at the prompt to find out what is readily available. You can map them to your keyboard via the keymap files mentioned in section <A HREF="DANISH2.HTM#loadkbd">LoadKeys</A>.</P> <P>X11R5 Note: The dead keys don't get the correct names under X11R5 with this scheme. Generally <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <CODE>dead_*</CODE> (under plain Linux) => <CODE>D*</CODE> or <CODE>D*_accent</CODE> (under X11R5) </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>

(i.e. the tilde may be <CODE>dead_tilde</CODE> in <CODE>dk-lat1.map</CODE> but X11R5 expects the dead tilde to be called <CODE>Dtilde</CODE>.) This does not apply to X11R6.</P>

<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 Loading the Latin-1 characer set on the console</A></H2>

<P>Execute the following commands under the <CODE>bash</CODE> shell: <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf mapscrn /usr/lib/kbd/consoletrans/trivial echo -ne '33(K' </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> </P> <P>Note: This only has effect under plain Linux. Do not try it under X.</P>