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- EURO PACK for Linux, version 1.3
- ********************************
- Copyright (c) 1998, Guylhem AZNAR <guylhem@oeil.qc.ca>, GPL
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- 0. CONTENT
- **********
-
- You will find here :
- * fr-latin0.map : French-Latin0 keymap for linux-console
- * fr-latin0.xmod : French-Latin0 keymap for X11-xmodmap
- * fr-latin0 : French-Latin0 keymap for X11-xkb
- * other-latin0.map : Generic Latin0 keymap for linux-console
- * other-latin0.xmod : Generic Latin0 keymap for X11-xmodmap
- * .psf files : Latin0 fonts for linux-console
- * .bdf files : Latin0 fonts for X11
- * 2 .gif files to visually explain the few differences between latin0 &
- latin1, 99% compatible.
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- 1. HOWTO
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-
- French AZERTY specific informations are only available in LISEZMOI, since
- an heavy majority of AZERTY keyboards users are french speaking like me :)
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- 1.1 UNDER LINUX-CONSOLE
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- For example with lat0-16.psf (or another psf) :
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- setfont ./lat0-16.psf
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- Eventually reload your national keymap first, for example US users will type :
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- loadkeys us.map
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- While German users will type :
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- loadkeys de.map
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- Now load latin0 keymap :
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- loadkeys ./other-latin0.map
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- You can now input latin0 text under linux-console, provided that your shell
- is 8bit clean, else please read Danish HOWTO.
-
- In order to support 8bit, Alt key right to your spacebar has been remapped
- to AltGr, which will be used as a modifier like Shift :
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- Press AltGr, press E, then release E and release AltGr :
- you will output an euro currency symbol.
-
- You can do the same with C to output a cent, this is
- notated AltGr (e) = euro & AltGr (c) = cent
-
- Home, End, Delete, Backspace have been corrected and "windows" keys have
- been mapped to switch from a virtual console to another.
-
- Moreover, "compose" sequences have been added : just prefix a key with
- compose key (SysReq) to output other latin0 chars, for example :
-
- SysReq (o) (e) will output oe ligature (for example german poet Goethe)
- SysReq (") (Y) will output uppercase Y diaeresis (for french and dutch)
- SysReq (/) (o) will output lowercase o slash (for danish and norwegian)
- SysReq (^) (s) will output lowercase s reverse circumflex (for finnish)
- SysReq (^) (Z) will output uppercase Z reverse circumflex (for finnish)
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- 1.2 UNDER X11
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- As root, for example with Xlat0-10x20.pcf (or another pcf) please type :
-
- bdftopcf Xlat0-10x20.pcf > Xlat0-10x20-lat0.pcf
- gzip Xlat0-10x20-lat0.pcf
- mv Xlat0-10x20-lat0.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
- mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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- US and xkb X11 extensions users will type :
-
- cp other-latin0.xmod /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xmodmap
- cp other-latin0.xmod ~/.Xmodmap
- cp other-latin0.xmod ~/.Xmodmap
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- While people who best like xmodmap or already have a working ~/.Xmodmap
- will type :
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- cat other-latin0.xmod >> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xmodmap
- cat other-latin0.xmod >> ~/.Xmodmap
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- Then either restart X or type :
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- xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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- And if xmodmap isn't automatically launched on startup, type :
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- xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
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- To select Latin0 fonts, run xfontsel and look for iso8859-15 encodings.
-
- Or even simpler, just type :
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- grep Xlat0-10x20-lat0.pcf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts*
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- Then use the second parameter as an argument for xiterm or rxvt font :
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- xiterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15
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- 2. FEEDBACK
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- I am interested by all kind of feedback, either positive or negative.
-
- Please tell me eventual bugs you could find and if you appreciate my work !
-
- Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@oeil.qc.ca>
- or <guylhem@barberouge.linux.lmm.com>
-