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#325
Interrobang ‽
Posted by simonw on Fri 15 May 2009 at 01:26
Interrobang is one of those daft extra symbols, which I decided I ought to be able to type it on my Debian box with "Compose" "!" "?".
Well it is a long time since I fiddled with keyboard mappings, so I browsed around, and found that the Compose mapping ought to be in:
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
Except a load of these don't work, including the mapping for Interrobang which is already there!
I figured GNOME was doing something "helpful" here, and indeed it seems it is, see the "Important Note" here:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.1
Got me installing im-switch, and using default-xim as described, and I can type Interrobang and the other non-functioning combinations from the Compose file above.
Now how best do I ensure that the VT Consoles behave the same way as X in this regard?
Well it is a long time since I fiddled with keyboard mappings, so I browsed around, and found that the Compose mapping ought to be in:
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
Except a load of these don't work, including the mapping for Interrobang which is already there!
I figured GNOME was doing something "helpful" here, and indeed it seems it is, see the "Important Note" here:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.1
Got me installing im-switch, and using default-xim as described, and I can type Interrobang and the other non-functioning combinations from the Compose file above.
Now how best do I ensure that the VT Consoles behave the same way as X in this regard?