The Linux Danish HOWTO

Thomas Petersen, `petersen@post1.tele.dk`

v1.1, 2 June 1996

This document describes how to configure Linux and various Linux applications for Danish locale standards such as keyboard, font, paper-size etc. It is hoped that Linux users from other places in Western Europe will find this document of use too.

1. Introduction

2. Keyboard setup

2.1 Loading a Danish key-table
2.2 Getting the AltGr key to work under X
2.3 Dead keys and accented characters
2.4 Making ø (oslash) Ø (Oslash) and $ (the dollar sign) work

3. Display and application setup

3.1 International character sets in specific applications
3.2 What characters you can display under Linux
3.3 Loading the Latin-1 character set on the console

4. Miscellaneous problems

4.1 Time zone.
4.2 A4 papersize
4.3 Text file formats and other platforms.

5. References and FTP sites

5.1 Other documents of relevance
5.2 FTP and Web sites