Re: Help with getting danish keyboard layout to work correctly (æøåÆØÅ characters)

[scootergrisen]

Den 18-01-2019 kl. 11:53 skrev Polytropon:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:05:23 +0100, scootergrisen wrote:
>> Can someone help with this bug?:
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233031
>>
>> I change to danish keyboard layout with kbdmap command in TTY.
> 
> Which exact command do you use?
> 
> Did you already think about using the equivalent /etc/rc.conf
> setting? For example, I have
> 
> 	keymap="de"
> 
> set, and german umlauts öäü ÖÄÜ and Eszett ß are being used
> correctly. For you, setting "dk" should be fully sufficient.
> Due to vt font problems (unreadable and tiny on a 21" screen),
> I also have
> 
> 	allscreens_flags="-f gallant"
> 
> which sets a different font at the end of the boot sequence.
> It's not much better than the default, still unreadable...
> 
> 
> 
>> But æøåÆØÅ keys does not work correctly.
> 
> See end of message for exegesis of "work". ;-)
> 
> 
> 
>> It might be that the characters æøåÆØÅ are not in the default font.
>> I want to try other fonts but i seems to be unable to change the font
>> with vidfont command.
> 
> First of all: Are you using vt as the console driver?
> This should be the default on recent FreeBSD versions.
> 
> Verify that UTF-8 has been set. For comparison:
> 
> 	% echo $LC_ALL
> 	de_DE.UTF-8
> 
> Stangely, I also get this:
> 
> 	% echo $LANG
> 	de_DE.ISO8859-1
> 
> Sadly, I forgot about the precedence rules of $LANG and $LC_*.
> 
> For testing, you can experiment with the language settings in
> your shell's initialization file. For the C shell, this is
> ~/.cshrc, and a logout - login cycle is a convenient way to
> change settings.
> 
> In my opinion, you _should_ be fine with
> 
> 	setenv	LANG	dk-DK.UTF-8
> 
> but you can try
> 
> 	setenv	LANG	dk-DK.ISO8859-1
> 
> as well.
> 
> Furthermore, just verify that /etc/ttys contains "xterm" as the
> terminal type for your virtual terminals; "cons25l1" which has
> worked before has been deprecated as with vt, there is no text
> mode anymore, all shiny graphics. :-)
> 
> 
> 
>> I tried adding this in /boot/loader.conf:
>> hw.vga.textmode=0
>>
>> But it still says this during boot:
>> VT: text 80x25
> 
> And it probably doesn't work. ;-)
> 
> 
> 
>> I would like æøåÆØÅ characters to work in the TTY by default.
> 
> You need to pay attention to two things:
> 
> 1. Are the keys accepted correctly?
> 
> 2. Are the appropriate symbols printed?
> 
> Those are two different aspects of the same "work" thing. :-)
> 
> So even though aspect 1 might work correctly, i. e., when
> you press å in an editor, the correct 2-byte sequence (due
> to UTF-8 default!) will be written to the file, it could
> happen that on the screen, you only see garbage, because
> the å won't be displayed, and instead an "excuse" is printed
> on the screen.
> 
> 
> 
> Sidenote:
> 
> If you don't want to use X, try to use sc instead of vt.
> In /boot/loader.conf, set
> 
> 	kern.vty=sc
> 
> In this case, you can also avoid using UTF-8 if you want, and
> instead use the regular western europe ISO-8859 character set,
> where å and ø, just like ü and ß, only require 1 byte. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PS.
> Yes, I'm not a big fan of vt at the moment. :-)
> 

So i tried different thinks now.

Remember i test i VirtualBox.

With kern.vty=sc i can get æøåÆØÅ to show correctly but only during 
login where it says "Login:".
For some reason the terminal shows nothing after i log in when i try to 
type æøåÆØÅ.

With kern.vty=vt i can type æøåÆ?Å (note the ? should have been Ø).
After login i can also type æøåÆ?Å (note the ? should have been Ø) at 
the terminal.
But i cant seem to change the font with vidfont when using kern.vty=vt 
to test if other fonts have Ø.

/etc/ttys says xterm for ttyv0-8