Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

[Thierry Laronde]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:37:32PM +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 12. June 2001 22:11, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> > > Yes, this on is top on my personal wish-list, too. I tried to read
> > > raw keyboard events instead of ASCII-Characters.
> >
> > You can always put on top of the menu.lst the "mapping" of ASCII
> > characters for you keyboard.
> >
> > That's what I propose for french users :
> >
> >
> > # Keymapping for an azerty french keyboard
> > setkey less backquote
> > setkey greater tilde
> > ...
> 
> I tried it this way, too, but the results do not satisfy me (I can get
> no ...). I need to map some Alt- combinations, but since mapping is
> based on ASCII characters, I have no chance, if the Alt-XYZ does have
> the same code als XYZ. As I wrote earlier, I thought, this could be a
> niche to work in, but my BIOS-knowledge was not suficcient, to get it
> working on the first try.

For french users too, we lack non-ASCII characters. There are some BIOS
extended functions for that, but the tip was just to explain that
something working, even if not perfect, is doable with the actual state
of the GRUB.
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Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/