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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU!dragon
  2. From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  4. Subject: RE: Diacriticals???How???
  5. Message-ID: <009672F5.03311260.2992@nscvax.princeton.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 16:25:14 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Organization: The Internet
  10. Lines: 38
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  12.  
  13.     J.C. Anderson <92anderson@gw.wmich.edu> writes:
  14. >
  15. >I have a problem....    how does one implement diacriticals (those funny-
  16. >    looking foreign marks/letters) on a vax/vms?
  17. >
  18. >
  19.  
  20.     If I needed to do it, I'd use the "Compose Character" key on my 
  21. LK-201 keyboard.
  22.  
  23. Compose Character a" = d
  24. Compose Character a' = a
  25. Compose Character a` = `
  26. Compose Character a^ = b
  27. Compose Character a* = e
  28. Compose Character a~ = c
  29.  
  30.     Both your terminal and your serial port must be setup to use eight 
  31. bit characters.  'x' (if you see this is an 'x', something is stripping 
  32. the eigth bit.
  33.  
  34. >Everytime I switch to a foreign keyboard set, and login to the system, it
  35. >    reverts back to usa.
  36.  
  37.     How do you "switch to a foreign keyboard set"?
  38.  
  39. >
  40. >Anyone got any suggestions?
  41.  
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  44. *                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
  45. *                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
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  47. *                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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