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/etc/skel/.emacs
/etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
/etc/skel/.vimrc
/etc/csh.cshrc
/etc/termcap
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp/term/*.el
These changes only affect applications that use terminfo entries or whose congu-
ration les are changed directly (vi, emacs, etc.). Applications not shipped with the
system should be adapted to these defaults.
Under X, the compose key (multikey) can be enabled as explained in /etc/X11/
Xmodmap.
Further settings are possible using the X Keyboard Extension (XKB). This extension
is also used by the desktop environments GNOME (gswitchit) and KDE (kxkb).
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Information about XKB is available in the documents listed in /usr/share/
doc/packages/xkeyboard-config (part of the xkeyboard-config
package).
11.4 Language and Country-Specic
Settings
The system is, to a very large extent, internationalized and can be modied for local
needs. Internationalization (I18N) allows specic localizations (L10N). The abbreviations
I18N and L10N are derived from the rst and last letters of the words and, in between,
the number of letters omitted.
Settings are made with LC_ variables dened in the le /etc/sysconfig/
language. This refers not only to native language support, but also to the categories
Messages (Language), Character Set, Sort Order, Time and Date, Numbers and Money.
Each of these categories can be dened directly with its own variable or indirectly with
a master variable in the le language (see the locale man page).
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