Re^4: How to convert this to swedish characters?

... don't want anything else than the swedish alphabet ...

As varian noted, the range operator generally does not work with non-ASCII characters. Even if it did work, "a".."ö" would not represent the swedish alphabet, as latin1/iso-8859-1 is a super-set of all characters commonly used in "western european" languages. IOW, what you'd get would simply be all latin1 characters from code 0x61 ("a") to 0xf6 ("ö").

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Re^5: How to convert this to swedish characters? by learn_perl_se (Initiate) on Feb 08, 2007 at 14:53 UTC
Ok maybe you could sort them in hexadecimal order to get the proper swedish alphabet? I don't know if it makes any difference.My OS (Slackware) installation is in english,but my keymap is in swedish.But in case it does.	[reply]
Re^6: How to convert this to swedish characters? by almut (Canon) on Feb 08, 2007 at 15:40 UTC
Don't think that would help... :) For example, `printf "%s ", chr($_) for (0x61..0xf6);` would already output those characters sorted in hexadecimal order, however, that's not the swedish alphabet... Theoretically, you could do `print "$_ " for ("a".."z","å","ä","ö");` to print out the swedish alphabet (I don't know a lot about Swedish - that's the alphabet Wikipedia told me) - though I'm not really sure what that would gain you ;) Printing out your keymap is an entirely different thing (i.e. displaying all characters that you would get if you pressed all keys on your keyboard, or something like this). Is that what you'd like to do? In that case you'd have to parse the corresponding keymap files (either the X11 ones , or those belonging to the linux console)... Especially with the X11 keymap structure (multiple files including one another), this might turn out to be a non-trivial task, probably better left to those dedicated tools that come with the `xkb` X11 extension...	[reply] [d/l] [select]