Multiple Key Compose Sequences for Locales
Many of the Solaris locales, especially the European and Unicode locales, allow input of various characters by using so-called "dead key sequences," which are also known as Compose key sequences.
The Compose key sequence input is used to input characters with diacritical marks and other characters that are not shown on the keyboard key caps.
The following table shows a few examples of Compose key sequences. For more complete information about the Compose key sequences, see "English/European Input Mode".
Table 3-13 Diacritical Characters Created With Compose Key
Mark | Compose Key Combination | Example |
|---|---|---|
Diaeresis | " | Compose A " --> A with diaeresis |
Caron | V | Compose Z v --> Z with caron |
Breve | u | Compose G u --> G with breve |
Ogonek | a | Compose A a --> A with Ogonek |
Cedilla | , | Compose K , --> K with cedilla |
Registered Sign | R O | Compose R O --> Registered sign |
Inverted Exclamation Mark | ! ! | Compose ! ! --> Inverted Exclamation Mark |
Note - If the current locale's codeset does not have a corresponding character, a compose sequence cannot be used. For example, since there is no Z with a caron in ISO8859-1, it is not possible to input a Z with a caron in the en_US.ISO8859-1 locale.
Keyboard Support in the Solaris 9 Product
Solaris recognizes and supports various keyboards with different key layouts made for specific regions, and layout support for both Sun SPARC and Intel Architecture (IA) platforms. Solaris 9 supports the regional keyboards listed in the following table:
Table 3-14 Support for Regional Keyboards
Region | Country | Sun Keyboard (Type 4/5/5c) | Sun Keyboard (Type 6) | PC Keyboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Asia | Japan | X | X | X |
| Korea | X | X | X |
| Taiwan | X | X | X |
Europe | Belgium | X | X | X |
| Czech Republic | X |
| X |
| Denmark | X | X | X |
| Finland |
| X |
|
| France | X | X | X |
| Germany | X | X | X |
| Great Britain | X | X | X |
| Greece | X |
| X |
| Hungary | X |
| X |
| Italy | X | X | X |
| Latvia | X |
| X |
| Lithuania | X |
| X |
| The Netherlands | X | X | X |
| Norway | X | X | X |
| Poland | X |
| X |
| Portugal | X | X | X |
| Russia | X | X | X |
| Spain | X | X | X |
| Sweden | X | X | X |
| Switzerland (French) | X | X | X |
| Switzerland (German) | X | X | X |
| Turkey | X | X | X |
America | Canada (French) | X | X | X |
| Latin America (Spanish) | X |
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| U.S.A. | X | X | X |
Middle East | Arabic | X | X |
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For regions with keyboard layouts that conform to the International Standard, such as China, use the keyboard layout support provided for the U.S.A. to input the locale's characters. The underlying keyboard mappings are identical. Some countries, like Japan, Turkey, and Switzerland have multiple keyboards, because multiple languages are being used, or because multiple keyboard layouts exist.
Sun Type 4, 5, and 5c keyboards use Sun I/O interfaces through a Mini DIN 8-pin connection. Sun Type 6 keyboards have two versions of interfaces:
Sun I/O through a Mini DIN 8-pin connection
USB
Sun keyboard types are printed on the back of each Sun keyboard.
PC keyboards use various interfaces, such as PS/2 or USB, for example.
Changing Between Keyboards on SPARC Systems
Users can change keyboard layouts in the Solaris product by using the DIP switch settings under most of Sun Type 4, 5 and 5c keyboards. A list of keyboard type, names and corresponding layout ids that can be used for the DIP switch settings is in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file.
Note - Users cannot change the layouts of Type 6 keyboards because there are no DIP switches at the back of the keyboards. Some Type 5 and 5c keyboards, for instance, U.S.A., U.S.A./UNIX, and Japanese keyboards have jumpers instead of DIP switches. There are no utilities or tools for both SPARC and IA platforms (apart from a standard UNIX tool, like xmodmap(1)) bundled into the Solaris 9 operating environment for switching keyboards.
The following is a table of the layout id values for Type 4, 5, and 5c keyboards. (1 = switch up, 0 = switch down).
Table 3-15 Layouts for Type 4, 5, and 5c Keyboards
DIP Switch | Keyboard (Keytable file) | Setting in Binary |
|---|---|---|
0 | U.S.A. (US4.kt) | 000000 |
1 | U.S.A. (US4.kt) | 000001 |
2 | Belgium (FranceBelg4.kt) | 000010 |
3 | Canada (Canada4.kt) | 000011 |
4 | Denmark (Denmark4.kt) | 000100 |
5 | Germany (Germany4.kt) | 000101 |
6 | Italy (Italy4.kt) | 000110 |
7 | The Netherlands (Netherland4.kt) | 000111 |
8 | Norway (Norway4.kt) | 001000 |
9 | Portugal (Portugal4.kt) | 001001 |
10 (0x0a) | Latin America/Spanish (SpainLatAm4.kt) | 001010 |
11 (ox0b) | Sweden (SwedenFin4.kt) | 001011 |
12 (0x0c) | Switzerland/French (Switzer_Fr4.kt) | 001100 |
13 (0x0d) | Switzerland/German (Switzer_Ge4.kt) | 001101 |
14 (0x0e) | Great Britain (UK4.kt) | 001110 |
16 (0x10) | Korea (Korea4.kt) | 010000 |
17 (0x11) | Taiwan (Taiwan4.kt) | 010001 |
33 (0x21) | U.S.A. (US5.kt) | 100001 |
34 (0x22) | U.S.A./UNIX (US_UNIX5.kt) | 100010 |
35 (0x23) | France (France5.kt) | 100011 |
36 (0x24) | Denmark (Denmark5.kt) | 100100 |
37 (0x25) | Germany (Germany5.kt) | 100101 |
38 (0x26) | Italy (Italy5.kt) | 100110 |
39 (0x27) | The Netherlands (Netherland5.kt) | 100111 |
40 (0x28) | Norway (Norway5.kt) | 101000 |
41 (0x29) | Portugal (Portugal5.kt) | 101001 |
42 (0x2a) | Spain (Spain5.kt) | 101010 |
43 (0x2b) | Sweden (Sweden5.kt) | 101011 |
44 (0x2c) | Switzerland/French (Switzer_Fr5.kt) | 101101 |
45 (0x2d) | Switzerland/German (Switzer_Ge5.kt) | 101110 |
46 (0x2e) | Great Britain (UK5.kt) | 101111 |
47 (0x2f) | Korea (Korea5.kt) | 101111 |
48 (0x30) | Taiwan (Taiwan5.kt) | 110000 |
49 (0x31) | Japan (Japan5.kt) | 110001 |
50 (0x32), see also 63 (0x3f) | Canada/French (Canada_Fr5.kt) | 110010 |
51 0(x33) | Hungary (Hungary5.kt) | 110011 |
52 (0x34 | Poland (Poland5.kt) | 110100 |
53 (0x35) | Czech (Czech5.kt) | 110101 |
54 (0x36) | Russia (Russia5.kt) | 110110 |
55 (0x37) | Latvia (Latvia5.kt) | 110111 |
56 (0x38) see also 62 (0x3e) | Turkey-Q5 (TurkeyQ5.kt) | 111000 |
57 (0x39) | Greece (Greece5.kt) | 111001 |
58 (0x3a) | Arabic (Arabic5.kt) | 111011 |
59 (0x3b) | Lithuania (Lithuania5.kt) | 111010 |
60 (0x3c) | Belgium (Belgian5.kt) | 111100 |
62 (0x3e) | Turkey-F5 (TurkeyF5.kt) | 111110 |
63 (0x3f) | Canada/French (Canada_Fr5_TBITS5.kt) | 111111 |
Keytable file names with 4 are for a Type 4 keyboard. Keytable file names with 5 are for a Type 5 keyboard.