6. How this Xmodmap solution works on various systems6.1. SuSE 6.4 and 7.06.1.1. SuSE 7.0 with XFree86 version 3.3.6 and KDE 2.0 (this also applies to SuSE 6.4No LANG=language statement is necessary in your bash_profile. You may use
the Xmodmap file with standard ISO8859-2 keycode definitions and the
.Xmodmap file (not from the legacy solution). Unfortunately,
although you may immediately start writing with ISO8859-2 keycodes, the
dead keys are not working properly and export LANG=language does not work
here in order to make these dead keys work. There's also some bug with fonts
or something - KDE 2.0 (or older XFree86 does not properly handle ISO8859-2
fonts together with Xmodmap. Old kedit, newest GNOME's gedit and StarOffice 5.2
work well (after applying the above script for StarOffice 5.2). After copying the Compose file from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-2/
to the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/, you may start elegantly
working with dead keys. This was also tested on StarOffice 5.2. 6.2. SuSE 7.0 (Xfree86 3.3.6, KDE 1.x), SuSE 8.0SuSE 7.0 works same as above. SuSE 8.0 works without problems - just apply
the xmodmap command on your xmodmap keyboard definition and you are ready
to go. It is a good idea to install support for your national language
in Yast2, if there is a problem. 6.3. Mandrake Linux 7.26.3.1. Mandrake Linux 7.2 - works as it shouldYes, it works as it should - I used the "kcmshell Personalization/kcmlayout",
command, which is in the menu in Configuration > KDE > Personalization >
keyboard layout and after just putting the LANG=language statement in
my .bash_profile, StarOffice worked immediately (with ISO8859-2 fonts
added to its directory) and I only switched the keyboards. I chose
Czechoslovakian as the second language and could write in Czech with ISO8859-2
characters on my screen. (I used the script for putting the ISO8859-2 fonts
for StarOffice). Unfortunatelly, the KDE 2.0 kedit could not visualize the
ISO8859-2 fonts and after switching the keyboard and selecting ISO8859-2
charset I saw this: ??????? instead of lcaron, scaron, etc., but *acute
symbols (uacute, aacute, etc.) displayed well. The maps in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols can be modified on the fly,
but this is a dirtier way than to modify Xmodmap maps. You switch keyboards from
the panel flag icon. 6.3.2. Mandrake Linux 7.2 with XFree86 version 3.3.6Apply the standard .Xmodmap keycodes (scaron, lcaron, not "threequarters"
or "mu", etc.) and issue the command: "xmodmap /.Xmodmap" and you may
work by switching the keyboards by pressing Scroll Lock (if you use my
Xmodmap file; if you use other Xmodmap file, try right Alt or whatever else
that is defined in the Xmodmap file). The FontPath statement in /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config
does not have to be changed: FontPath "unix/:1" The XFree86 reads automatically your fonts, but I put the ISO8859-2 fonts to
/usr/share/fonts directory (same as in RedHat). Surprisingly, you do not
have to copy the ../ISO8859-2/Compose file to ../ISO8859-1 directory
and dead keys work nicely. 6.4. Mandrake 8.1These distributions work well as they should. In KDE, you must open the
menu: Start > Preferences > Personalization > Country and Language,
where you will change CHARSET from ISO8859-1 to ISO8859-2 (or ISO8859-X for
any other language of your choice). Then you may either select a keyboard
layout - Peripherals, Keyboard (Slovak is included with dozens of other
keyboard XKB maps) from the menu: Start > Configuration > KDE >
Personalisation > Peripherals > Keyboard, or you may choose my Standard
Xmodmap solution. No other files require editing. That's great! Alternatively,
you can set your keyboard with setxkbmap command (see section FreeBSD 4.4). 6.5. RedHat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 (XFree86 3.3.6 and older)The legacy solution must be used here. No LANG=language statement is necessary
in your bash_profile. Here the "experimental" .Xmodmap solution works
("mu" instead of "lcaron", etc.) and you must copy the Compose file from
../IS08859-2 to ISO8859-1 directory in order for dead keys to work. There is
only one XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and its FontPath must contain path to
the pertinent fonts. 6.6. RedHat 7.2, RedHat 8.0, Slackware 8.1RedHat 7.2 behaves same as Mandrake 8.1. RedHat 8.0, with KDE 3, works nicely
without problems - you can use the xmodmap solution immediately without digging
up in the system and changing configurations. You do not have to go to Look and
Feel menu in the Preferences menu - you can either apply the xmodmap solution
immediately, or you can choose to configure (add) keyboard in the Preferences -
Peripherals menu (if you decide for XKB). You will have the keyboard icon
placed on the panel and you just click on it to switch between keyboards.
Slackware 8.1 behaves exactly as RedHat 8.0, I only had to include the "export=
language command (both for XKB and Xmodmap solution) in the Bash profile for
the dead keys to work. 6.7. FreeBSD 3.1 and 3.2Internationalization works the same way as with RedHat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 6.8. FreeBSD 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5No LANG=language statement is necessary in your bash_profile. But
you must put this to /etc/profile:
LANG=cs_CZ.ISO_8859-2; export LANG FreeBSD 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 does not use Slovak locale, so we must use
the Czech one here. It really does not matter. Here this depends on XFree86.
Because the FreeBSD guys are too conservative about newer versions,
they ship FreeBSD with older versions of XFree86. In FreeBSD 4.1 the
experimental .Xmodmap solution works and you have to copy the
../ISO8859-2/Compose file to ../ISO8859-1 directory to make the dead keys work. 6.9. FreeBSD 4.6.The Standard Xmodmap solution works well. I think this version has some
problems with installation - after installing the system, I missed some
things I had selected in the installation wizard. A good idea would be to
upgrade. If you decide to run setxkbmap (FreeBSD or Linux), you may use setxkbmap si as a command from an X Terminal for the Slovenian language setxkbmap se for Swedish setxkbmap de for German, etc. A brief overview of names that stand for XKB maps: am Armenian keyboard be Belgian de German ca Canadian cs Czech dk Danish es Spanish fi Finnish fr French gb Great Britain hu Hungarian is Iceland it Italian jp Japanese no Norwegian pl Polish pt Portugese ro Romanian ru Russian se Swedish si Slovenian 6.10. Corel Linux 1.0 and 1.1Same as with FreeBSD 3.x - legacy Xmodmap solution must be applied. |
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