Keysetproblem
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Keysetproblem
started by: hoerig
Posted by hoerig on Feb. 20 2007,09:25
HiI use DSL 3.2 with Fluxbox 0.9.11 and the < SVGA-XServer >. But I have one problem: I can't write german special characters like ä ö ü or ß. Instead it writes []@ and \. I think thats a part of the american keyset, but I load 'de' in kbdconfig and tried 'de-latin1' and 'de-latin1-nodeadkeys' too without any result. All other keys works correctly for the german keyboard.
Is the other XServer the problem? And how can I solve this?
Thanks!
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 20 2007,18:05
Did you make sure you restarted X after?If it still doesnt work, did you try other keymaps?
Otherwise these links might help...
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=10784 >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....79;st=5 >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=9751 >
If nothing still works, you could hardcode the key values to xmodmap.
Posted by hoerig on Feb. 20 2007,18:43
Well, after some reboots I saw, that I can write ö ä ü in bash and before x startet a keyset was loaded. I delete the entry from bootlocal.sh and now it works! 
BUT: In XChat I can write ö ä and ü but i can't receive them. In the serverwindow is written: "ICONV Conversation from character set 'ISO-8859-1' to 'UTF-8' is not supportet". When I start XChat from bash it says: "Gdk-Warning **: Error Converting from UTF-8 to String: Conversation from Character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported".
But how can I install the ISOs and/or where can I change the default system character set?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 21 2007,02:58
You can try changing your font encoding in xchat if that's supported...or you could try downloading them from apt or somewhere.