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# 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

- 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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