Hi. Check out an earlier thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...d5d9875ad2db75

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I have a default full install of solaris.
> No matter wich locale I setup in the GUI I can't get diacryptic chars.
> What is the default compose key when I work in the gui?
>
> I did NOT setup an xorg.conf file but reading the multilangual PDF files
> on docs.sun.org it is my understanding that diacrytic chars are supported
> by default.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> In article <1157895661.443872.16330@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.c om>,
> "lafros" writes:
>
>>Hi. Check out an earlier thread:
>>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...d5d9875ad2db75
>
>
> and the compose key on x86 is CTRL-Alt by default.
>
This does not answer my question

In my xorg.conf I have:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection

In FreeBSD I can type 'e and that becomes é
In solaris I have to use another key first and then it does not work
correctly either. When I press the compose key followed by 'e I get
this: 'é <--- note the extra '

I do not want a compose key. I want to press 'e and get é
If I want the ' I just press it twice.
How can this be done?

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:12:01 +0000 (UTC), Dick Hoogendijk
wrote:
> I have a default full install of solaris.
> No matter wich locale I setup in the GUI I can't get diacryptic chars.
> What is the default compose key when I work in the gui?
>
> I did NOT setup an xorg.conf file but reading the multilangual PDF files
> on docs.sun.org it is my understanding that diacrytic chars are supported
> by default.

With which sort of keyboard?

My experience is that support is patchy. Xemacs and vim are quite good. Mozilla
stinks. gedit and StarOffice do nothing. vi works kindof (inserts the
characters but displays them as octal escapes). Opera is in the middle,
compose 'e gives 'é (seems to be the case for Qt apps in general).

In all, a mixed bag. A bit of a let down by some of the big names
(StarOffice, Mozilla).

A bientot
Paul
--
Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr (for what it's worth)
Surgery: ennobled Gerald.

quoting Paul Floyd (11 Sep 2006 20:55:27 GMT):
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:12:01 +0000 (UTC), Dick Hoogendijk
> wrote:

>> I did NOT setup an xorg.conf file but reading the multilangual PDF
>> files on docs.sun.org it is my understanding that diacrytic chars are
>> supported by default.
>
> With which sort of keyboard?

A KeyTronic ErgoForce US layout (pc105)

> My experience is that support is patchy. Xemacs and vim are quite good.
> Mozilla stinks. gedit and StarOffice do nothing. vi works kindof
> (inserts the characters but displays them as octal escapes). Opera is in
> the middle, compose 'e gives 'é (seems to be the case for Qt apps in
> general).

The latter was also my experience ('é) Stupid ;-)

> In all, a mixed bag. A bit of a let down by some of the big names
> (StarOffice, Mozilla).

A bit of a letdown by solaris I think, because the same applications you
mentioned DO work OK in linux and in FreeBSD-6.1 with the same Xorg
version. So ..

We'll explore some more. I reinstalled yesterday (with a different disk
layout [larger]) and suddenly in some progs the é works where it did not
work before. It'll come in the end. Solaris says it's an international OS,
so they have to ;-)

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:31:53 +0000 (UTC), Dick Hoogendijk
wrote:

> A bit of a letdown by solaris I think, because the same applications you
> mentioned DO work OK in linux and in FreeBSD-6.1 with the same Xorg
> version. So ..

Yes, everything does seem to work with no problems with both FreeBSD 6.1
and FC5.

A bientot
Paul
--
Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr (for what it's worth)
Surgery: ennobled Gerald.