From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 05:40:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7372137B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79ED343FBF for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7ECdjC7009195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:39:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h7ECdgsi008836; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:39:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:39:42 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Scott Mitchell Message-ID: <20030814123942.GA3558@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Scott Mitchell , Darren , Jez Hancock , FreeBSD questions List References: <279159971.20030813132234@dazdaz.org> <20030813142516.GB712@users.munk.nu> <474924531.20030814120605@dazdaz.org> <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: Jez Hancock cc: Darren cc: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: UK keyboard and missing ? character X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:40:10 -0000 --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/O4MOdtESqEQa7a0RAuu5AJ9/YAMID6ixayAO0ygX/UrLs5KuRACfaxPn boONkb9g7pb7zWlf290O3w0= =YjiL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb--