Bug#389970: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#389970: console-setup: Can't use Danish special characters

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:05:41PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> 
> This did not work before installing console-setup either. I assume
> part of console-setup's job is that make that work?

This is true.

> I tried various combinations of settings for console-setup
> (unicode/non-unicode), but couldn't get it to work.

I suppose you are talking about the following characters:

<U00E5>     /xc3/xa5     LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
<U00E6>     /xc3/xa6     LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
<U00F8>     /xc3/xb8     LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE

I've just tested the danish keyboard with your configuration and it
seams can produce these symbols.  For a-ring I used the key after "p",
for ae I used the key after "l" and for o-slash I used the key after
the key for ae.

Are you sure that the settings of console-setup are active?  If not,
then use the command setupcon.

Are you sure you have correct locale?  If you use ISO-8859-1, then the
LANG environment variable should have value "da_DK".

Are you sure also that your command interpreter accepts non-ASCII
symbols.  Can you enter these characters in X in terminal emulator.
If not, then try to make a file ~/.inputrc with the following
contents:

set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

Anton Zinoviev