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<TITLE>The Linux Danish/International HOWTO: Introduction</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A><!--Danish!introduction--></H2>
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<P>All European users of almost any operating system have two problems:
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The first is to tell the computer that you have a non-American keyboard,
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and the second is to get the computer to display the special
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characters. To make matters worse some applications will also consider you
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an exception if you are not an American and require special options or the
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setting of environment variables.
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<P>Under Linux you change the way your computer interprets the
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keyboard with the commands <CODE>loadkeys</CODE> and <CODE>xmodmap</CODE>. <CODE>loadkeys</CODE>
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will modify the keyboard for plain Linux while <CODE>xmodmap</CODE> makes the
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modifications necessary when the handshaking between X11 and Linux is
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imperfect.
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<P>To display the characters you need to tell your applications that you
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use the ISO-8859-1 (a.k.a. Latin-1) international set of glyphs. This is
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not always necessary, but a number of key applications need special
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attention.
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<P>This HOWTO is intended to tell Danish users how to do this. If
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you continue to have problems after reading this you can try the
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German HOWTO, the Linux Keyboard and Console HOWTO or the ISO 8859-1 National
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Character Set FAQ. Many of the hints contained herein are cribbed from
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there. See section
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<A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-8.html#docs">Other documents of relevance</A> for
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pointers to these documents. You should also send me a mail describing your
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problems.
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<P>A final problem is that error-messages, menus and documentation of the
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applications are mostly in English. There is a GNU project under way to
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address this problem. You can see what it is all about by downloading
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the file <CODE>ABOUT-NLS</CODE> or the package <CODE>gettext-0.10.tar.gz</CODE> (or any
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later version) from your favourite mirror of the GNU archive. This
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project needs volunteers for the translations. Send a mail to
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<CODE>da-request@li.org</CODE> with the body ``subscribe'' if you want to contribute
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to the Danish part of the project. The documentation in the <CODE>gettext</CODE>
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package describes how to use such translations in your own programs.
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