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- From: smith@compound.se (Bjorn Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Does X11R5 supports 8 bit characters ?
- Message-ID: <Btzvvv.nK@compound.se>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 09:04:43 GMT
- Organization: Compound Systems AB
- Lines: 33
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
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- In our SVR4 X11R5 environment we are having some difficulties
- mapping key codes to character values > 127.
- Could anyone please explain why the following doesn`t work ?
-
- Mapping a key to "aring" (funny Swedish a-relative) by feeding
-
- keycode 34 = aring Aring
-
- into xmodmap. Looking at the result with xev shows exactly what I expect,
- the character a with a small circle above (aring).
- When I press the same key at the shell prompt I get 'e' echoed back which
- is the character value for "aring" with the 8th bit stripped off.
-
- Trying
-
- cat > xxx
-
- and the pressing the key gets the same result (the 'e').
-
- Then I edit xxx with a binary editor (beav) to containg the proper value
- for "aring". After that I type
-
- cat xxx
-
- and the famous "aring" comes out as expected.
-
- According the xterm manual it should be able to handle 8 bit chars.
-
- Many thanks in advance for any kind of help !
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