Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:39:42 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UK keyboard and missing ? character Message-ID: <20030814123942.GA3558@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <279159971.20030813132234@dazdaz.org> <20030813142516.GB712@users.munk.nu> <474924531.20030814120605@dazdaz.org> <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:49:22PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Darren wrote:
> >=20
> > Hello Jez,
> >=20
> > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this and many variations don't
> > allow me to use the ? (UK pound) character. I've spent some more time
> > searching around and hav'nt found a working solution, yet.
> >=20
> > Of those UK people with a working ? character, what rc.conf* settings
> > do you use?
>=20
> The only relevant thing I have is
>=20
> keymap=3D"uk.iso"
>=20
> Which seems to work fine. Is there something strange about the keyboard
> itself?
I find:
font8x14=3D"iso-8x14"
font8x16=3D"iso-8x16"
font8x8=3D"iso-8x8"
useful as well as setting the keymap to 'uk.iso'. This in conjunction
with changing the terminal type by editing /etc/ttys:
% diff -u /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys /etc/ttys=20
--- /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys Fri Nov 22 18:44:43 2002
+++ /etc/ttys Fri Jul 18 17:50:32 2003
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@
# when going to single-user mode.
console none unknown off secure
#
-ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
+ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
# Virtual terminals
-ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure
-ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure
+ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure
+ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
# Serial terminals
# The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc.
ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure
The 'cons25l1' terminal type is very similar to the default cons25,
but it has improved support for characters from ISO-8859-1. There are
similar modified terminal versions in /etc/termcap to support KOI8-R,
ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-7 etc.
Under X, the xterm or xterm-color terminal types all seem to support
display of appropriate non-ascii characters. So long as you have=20
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
in the "InputDevice" section for Keyboard0, then you should get the =A3
sign appearing as shift-3 and " on shift-2 and @ on shift-' and all of
the other differences between the standard US and UK keyboard layouts.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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