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The Linux Danish/International HOWTO

Niels Kristian Bech Jensen nkbj@sslug.dk

v2.6, 9 March 2000

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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.

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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

• 4.1 Time zone
• 4.2 A4 papersize
• 4.3 Text file formats for other platforms

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

• 8.1 Other documents of relevance
• 8.2 FTP and Web sites

9. Credits and legal stuff

• 9.1 Legal stuff

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