Dead keys on console

Martin Karlsson mk-freebsd at bredband.net
Wed Jul 16 05:37:48 PDT 2003


Hi,

* Jacob Vennervald Madsen <jvennervald at proventum.net> [2003-07-16 08.56 +0200]:
> Hi
> 
> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD (with Linux experience).
> My problem is that I want to have a danish keyboard layout with dead
> keys on my console but I can only get the danish keyboard to work. I've
> tried different things, but I can't get the â, ã, é, è etc. characters
> working.
> Can anybody help me?

Try the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:

font8x8="iso1-8x8"
font8x14="iso1-8x14"
font8x16="iso1-8x16"
keymap="danish.iso"

Also, set the environment variable LC_CTYPE to da_DK.ISO8859-1.
That should do it.

(Change 1 to 15 in the above examples if you want Euro-currency-char 
support.)

Hope this helps,
-- 
Martin Karlsson


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