International character sets with SunOS 4.1 ??

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

With SunOS 4.1 and Type-4 keyboards we now can use international
characters due to the new 8-bit support.  However, the use of this
feature, which is most interesting to Europeans and others as well,
appears totally undocumented in the SunOS 4.1 manual set.  I have so far
managed to figure out, that you can enable keyboard input of 8-bit
characters by "stty pass8".  I have also by trial and error learned that,
for example, the keystroke sequence Compose-a-e will give me a beautiful
Danish letter.

But WHY, oh why, is there no manual section describing how to enable the
Compose feature, and where is the complete table of Compose codes and the
extended 8-bit ASCII code table ?  And what is the use of the features
documented in locale(5) ?  And what are the keyboard layouts (images of
the keyboard, I mean) that you get by loading national key mappings with
loadkeys(1) ?  After all, these trivial questions were all thoroughly
documented years ago on DEC systems, when the VT-220 terminals first
appeared on the market.  Just check the manual that comes with any DEC
terminal !

Could someone from Sun, or anyone with the required knowledge, provide me
(and the Sun community) with answers to the above questions.  A little
manual describing International Features would be just great !!

With best regards,
Ole H. Nielsen
Laboratory of Applied Physics, Building 307
Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
E-mail: OHNielsen at ltf.dth.dk
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