BUMP: Icelandic character composition not working

BUMP: Icelandic character composition not working

[Jay Smith]

Hi Again,

If this is not the correct place to ask about this, please just let me 
know. Otherwise, any ideas?

Jay

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Hi,

Sorry if this is the wrong list; I am not sure where to turn.

In RedHat Linux running under xwindows provided by Cygwin/XFree86, I am
able to type all the "foreign characters" I need to use, except for one
Icelandic characters (I can type other Icelandic characters).  Again, this
is to type such characters in linux programs and documents running under X.

My "guru" mapped the Right Alt key as the Multi_key and so with it I can
make characters like þ and Þ and Ä, etc., by typing combinations of
letters, etc.

However, I have not been able to figure out how to make the "thorn" (eth)
character which I think is 208 and 240 decimal.  It is the character that
looks like a d or D with a horizontal line through it.

The docs say that I am supposed to be able to use:

   minus D    or      D minus

   minus d    or      d minus

(minus = dash = - )

I have Googled and just am not finding the right page.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Jay

Re: BUMP: Icelandic character composition not working

[Alexander Gottwald]

Jay Smith wrote:

> In RedHat Linux running under xwindows provided by Cygwin/XFree86, I am
> able to type all the "foreign characters" I need to use, except for one
> Icelandic characters (I can type other Icelandic characters).  Again, this
> is to type such characters in linux programs and documents running under X.
>
> My "guru" mapped the Right Alt key as the Multi_key and so with it I can
> make characters like þ and Þ and Ä, etc., by typing combinations of
> letters, etc.
>
> However, I have not been able to figure out how to make the "thorn" (eth)
> character which I think is 208 and 240 decimal.  It is the character that
> looks like a d or D with a horizontal line through it.
>
> The docs say that I am supposed to be able to use:
>
>    minus D    or      D minus
>
>    minus d    or      d minus
>
> (minus = dash = - )

if "setxkbmap is" works, please send me /tmp/XWin.log

it gives me þ and Þ with the key left to the right-shift key and
ð and Ð with compose-minus-d

compose is shift alt-gr (right alt).

bye
    ago
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