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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:21:46 +0930

iso 8895-1 typing with US kbd

Question:
How do I get foreign accents etc. with a US keyboard?

More and more lately, I'm finding that I need french and
german in e-mails.
Linux mailers receive the west european iso8859-1
alphabet okay. But I can't see how to actually type in
accents with my US keyboard.

Is this application dependent?
Or does XFree86 have some set of 
application-independent mechanism for entering
those foreign characters?

On solaris, I think you use a "compose" key to
compose these chars. But I don't see such a key
on my US standard kbds.

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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PS.  Regarding the sendmail problem I had a while
back, I actually hadn't solved it when I said I had.
I was confused by the ORBS site messages.

In order to finally fix the problem of having a
redhat 5.2 sendmail 8.8.7 on the internet
which permitted spammers to relay via my
mail server, I had to do the following:

Download sendmail 8.9.3 from the net.
Compile it.
Copy the file /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc 
to the appropriate cf directory in the
8.9.3 set-up.
Edit out the "hack" lines in redhat.mc.
Compile the modified redhat.mc with m4.
Move the generated cf file to /etc/sendmail.cf.
Start up the new sendmail 8.9.3.

This then passes the tests at
http://www.orbs.org/

By the way, if you're interested in this and other
internet security issues, my collection of
web links on security is at:
http://www.topology.org/sec.html

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