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Old 15th March 2010
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Real Name: Anthony J. Bentley
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Originally Posted by Oko
If you use X window system you can use xmodmap to get Gaj's Latin alphabet (Gajevu Latinicu).
Another way to type special characters is the compose key:
$ setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

(You can use other keys instead of ralt too.)

Now I can type, e.g., "alt D -" and get that D with a line through it.


I do wish OpenBSD supported locales, so I could type arbitrary Unicode characters with Compose. On the Linux boxes at school, for example, I can type arrow keys or smart quotes easy, because their compose supports more than 255 characters.

There was a guy who did some work on it, so it's not impossible. I hope to see reasonable locale support in OpenBSD within a few years.
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