FreeBSD10 - changes with "Umlauts"?

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:47:40 +0200 Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:38:58 +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>> Over various FreeBSD releases I worked with the following configuration:
>> 
>> /etc/ttys:
>> console none                            cons25l1        off secure
>> ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25l1        on  secure
>> ...
> 
> This is correct. The default settings have now been changed
> to "xterm". However, for console work, setting "cons25l1" is
> still possible.

I don't think it is necessary though.

>> Just for completeness, here's what I got in
>> 
>> /etc/rc.conf:
>> keymap="german.iso.acc.kbd"
> 
> It's also possible to set
> 
> 	keymap="german.iso"
> 
> but don't forget to define the proper fonts:
> 
> 	font8x14="iso-8x14"
> 	font8x16="iso-8x16"
> 	font8x8="iso-8x8"
> 
> Those contain Umlauts and Eszett.

If you replace "iso" with "iso15" here there's also a euro sign if users
set an ISO8859-15 locale.  You can set this in ~/.login_conf so it works
with any shell:

me:\
	:charset=iso-8859-15:\
	:lang=de_AT.ISO8859-15: