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Date:      16 Jul 2003 15:07:17 +0200
From:      Jacob Vennervald Madsen <jvennervald@proventum.net>
To:        Martin Karlsson <mk-freebsd@bredband.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dead keys on console
Message-ID:  <1058360839.1240.34.camel@jvennervald.intra.proventum.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030716123738.GA87716@c-7cc170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se>
References:  <1058338610.1223.6.camel@jvennervald.intra.proventum.net>  <20030716123738.GA87716@c-7cc170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se>

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This is what I've done but that doesn't give me the dead keys (ä, â, ã,
é, è etc.).
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jacob


On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:37, Martin Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Jacob Vennervald Madsen <jvennervald@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
> 
-- 
Venlig hilsen / Best regards,
Jacob Vennervald
System Developer
Proventum Solutions ApS
Toldbodgade 51C
1253 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Phone: 	+45 33 45 43 61
Mobile:	+45 61 68 58 51



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