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- From: jem@vipunen.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: German Keyboard and Umlauts for Linux
- In-Reply-To: injoh@rz.tu-clausthal.de's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:09:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <JEM.92Nov18105752@vipunen.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <injoh.8.721998561@rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:57:52
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- In article <injoh.8.721998561@rz.tu-clausthal.de> injoh@rz.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein) writes:
-
- >But now I'd like to use real german umlauts. What have I to do
- >to make Linux 8-bit-clean? In ASCII umlauts have ASCII-Codes greater 127.
- >Please Post to this News-Group. I can't receive mail.
-
- Change the definition of KEYBOARD in the Makefile to
- KEYBOARD = -DKBD_GR_LATIN1 -DKBDFLAGS=0x9F and recompile the kernel.
- The Makefile also explains the KBDFLAGS define.
-
- Please note that some applications aren't very good at handling 8-bit
- characters.
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
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