3. Display and application setup

3.1 International character sets in specific applications

A number of applications demand special attention. This section descibes how to set up configuration filesfor them.

• bash v.1.13+ : Put the following in your .inputrc file

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

• tcsh: Put the following in your /etc/csh.login or .tcshrc file

  setenv LC_CTYPE ISO-8859-1
  stty pass8
  

• less: Set the following environment variable

  LESSCHARSET=latin1
  

• elm: Set the following environment variables

  LANG=C
  LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1
  

• emacs: Put the following in your .emacs or the /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/default.el file:

  (standard-display-european t)
  
  (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode))
          (nth 1 (current-input-mode))
          0) 
  

• TeX / LaTeX: Cribbed from the ISO 8859-1 FAQ by Michael Gschwind <mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at>: In LaTeX 2.09, use

  \documentstyle[isolatin]{article}
  

  to include support for ISO latin1 characters. In LaTeX2e, the commands

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{isolatin}
  

  will do the job. isolatin.sty is available from all CTAN servers and from URL ftp://ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/pub/8bit.

3.2 International character sets in specific applicationsWhat characters you can display under Linux

Type dumpkeys -l | less at the prompt to find out what is readily available. You can map them to your keyboard via the keymap files mentioned in section LoadKeys.

X11R5 Note: The dead keys don't get the correct names under X11R5 with this scheme. Generally

dead_* (under plain Linux) => D* or D*_accent (under X11R5)

3.3 Loading the Latin-1 characer set on the console

Execute the following commands under the bash shell:

setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf
mapscrn /usr/lib/kbd/consoletrans/trivial
echo -ne '\033(K'

Note: This only has effect under plain Linux. Do not try it under X.