The Linux Danish/International HOWTO
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen nkbj@sslug.dk
v2.6, 9 March 2000
This document describes how to configure Linux and various Linux applications for Danish locale standards such as keyboard, font, paper-size etc. It is hoped that Linux users from other places in Western Europe will find this document useful too.
1. Introduction
2. Keyboard setup
- 2.1 Loading a keytable
- 2.2 Getting the AltGr key to work under X11
- 2.3 Dead keys and accented characters
- 2.4 Making $ (the dollar sign), ø (oslash) and Ø (Oslash) work
3. Display and application setup
- 3.1 Loading the ISO-8859-1 font on the console
- 3.2 The Euro symbol
- 3.3 Characters you can display under Linux
- 3.4 International character sets in specific applications
4. Miscellaneous problems
5. Locale support in libc 5.4.x and higher
6. Programming tips for X11
7. Getting X11 applications to speak Danish
8. Information resources
9. Credits and legal stuff
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