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Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: arzgi on March 27, 2006, 10:13:57 pm: I'm a Finn, and Finnish language uses often accented characters, like Ã¤ and Ã¶. I can produce them from Multikey using stylus, but that is slow method if you are working from keyboard. In /etc/keymap-2.6.map are lines like "compose '~' 'a' to 'Ã¤'", but I could not find how to combine ~ and a, and get Ã¤, for example.

This is the only bigger problem, otherwise I'm very happy user of OZ 3.5.4.1-alpha/SL-C3100. Opie looks great. Thanks guys!
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: Hrw on March 28, 2006, 01:50:44 am: install http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....0-r5_akita.ipk (http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4/feed/upgrades/machine/akita/keymap-extension-de_1.0-r5_akita.ipk) and look at /etc/keymap-extension-2.6-de.map - maybe this will provide you idea.
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: arzgi on March 28, 2006, 10:15:03 pm: Quote
install http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....0-r5_akita.ipk (http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4/feed/upgrades/machine/akita/keymap-extension-de_1.0-r5_akita.ipk) and look at /etc/keymap-extension-2.6-de.map - maybe this will provide you idea.
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Thanks for your quick reply HRW. Now I can write correct Finnish. You are so great!
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: arzgi on March 28, 2006, 10:52:30 pm: Hmm, I thought the problem was solved, but only partially. With keymap-extension all
characters, including those mentioned in extension, work perfectly in terminal.
In Opie, small Ã¤ and Ã¶ work right, but after first Ã„ or Ã– , no other key
than those two works, so I can write only something like "Ã„Ã„Ã–Ã„Ã„Ã–Ã–Ã–"
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: Hrw on March 29, 2006, 12:57:19 am: can you post your keymap extension so someone could look at it?
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: CoreDump on March 29, 2006, 01:06:16 am: Quote
can you post your keymap extension so someone could look at it?
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Sounds like the infamous Fn+Shift = dead keyboard bug
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: arzgi on March 29, 2006, 03:36:41 am: Quote
can you post your keymap extension so someone could look at it?
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# German keymapping
charset "iso-8859-1"
altgr keycode 24 = +odiaeresis
altgr keycode 30 = +adiaeresis
#altgr keycode 22 = +udiaeresis
shift altgr keycode 24 = +Odiaeresis
shift altgr keycode 30 = +Adiaeresis
#altgr shift keycode 22 = +Udiaeresis
#altgr keycode 31 = ssharp

It's exactly the same as you told me (the Akita example), I only commented out german
characters.
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: arzgi on March 29, 2006, 03:39:24 am: Quote
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can you post your keymap extension so someone could look at it?
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Sounds like the infamous Fn+Shift = dead keyboard bug
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I was no aware of that bug, but those problematic Ã„ an Ã– are Fn+Shift+a and FN+Shift+o.
Title: How To Enter Accented Chacters Using Keyboard?
Post by: CoreDump on March 29, 2006, 10:42:19 am: Code: [Select]
Revision: b29e6e610a1fbefdea1d7d82de917d45af006e35 Ancestor: 65663f9c4ba58c43f869ff2a02bcfd05cae14185 Author: coredump@openembedded.org Date: 2006-03-29T15:36:18 Branch: org.openembedded.dev Added files: packages/keymap-locales/files/akita/keymap-extension-2.6-fi.map packages/keymap-locales/files/borzoi/keymap-extension-2.6-fi.map packages/keymap-locales/files/c7x0/keymap-extension-2.6-fi.map packages/keymap-locales/files/collie/keymap-extension-2.4-fi.map packages/keymap-locales/files/spitz/keymap-extension-2.6-fi.map Modified files: packages/keymap-locales/keymap-locales.bb ChangeLog: keymap-locales: Add finnish keymap to Akita, Borzoi, Spitz, C7x0 & Collie Courtesy of arzgi from oesf.org
Added to 3.5.4.1, thanks!