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gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

I can't get German/Swedish characters to work.

Not really sure whether this is the appropriate forum for this, and I apologise if it's not.

I can't type those german/swedish öäü-letters anywhere(Had to copy/paste those from a website). I think utf-8 works, cause i can write the norwegian ØÆÅ. The german/swedish characters doesn't work in urxvt and not in firefox. I have a Norwegian keyboard. In Windows I can do it. Could there be any things interesting in xorg.conf or something? Isn't it possible to have them both work?

usually I need to click first on one button to create the ¨-symbol and then on either "o", "u", "a" etc..but now the ¨-symbol appears as soon as i click on it. It doesn't wait for a follow-up-keypress.

Thanks for reading!

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: I can't get German/Swedish characters to work.

Check your xorg.conf for nodeadkeys. Is it in there? Or just paste the xorg.conf and we try to figure it out together.

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Jansson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 106

Re: I can't get German/Swedish characters to work.

My working setup for a swedish keyboard:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel"  "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "se" 
EndSection

Hope it'll help

Last edited by Jansson (2007-09-26 17:05:51)

madeye

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-07-19

Posts: 331

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Re: I can't get German/Swedish characters to work.

I had a similar situation with my setup, and discovered that I had to remove the option NoDeadKeys from my keyboard section in xorg.conf

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