From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 02:03:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41FBBBB8 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1012F3CE6 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id rp18so7450287iec.33 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=a11gz41jv1dSN0JPaoMBGIaDI5ifpvquvlylFOC1+jk=; b=aI+XuigPvWCy4W2sKWPTqLpvsBu4d1nKcXkzc41yTFv76ZgRGrSdNSTzof6At2Ku4p QW0qFyDXMHpFPNGn1sytJp05g8S1jUrWFpnLxNSH2poCfpFibwIWkBGSMzh0q8pkO/Bw vIBt6+1257rNvZCMWQt9MDium4DTPPfLTRvuG6CzsNTQxtTPah53hL8l1D0ANWjNpmIy hUmd6x99Jqu+ypP+tu5ZikhAED4CiNRqlsXvC0dpdvN9CCMTe2sX0zjhUp53Thhpsroi dZLvMEjKEIiHaNtHSk+UaNCITDEzfi5OYMnMmdXlHKESp3kwK4kLyI2kIJZy8vilokeW X+Ug== X-Received: by 10.50.73.198 with SMTP id n6mr2171626igv.11.1408759431417; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.131.38 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:03:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Ed Maste Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:03:31 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4WiGYXoYWkBV_Xte9u0jIpKQEco Message-ID: Subject: Re: Keymap definitions for VT / NEWCONS To: Dieter BSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:03:52 -0000 On 21 August 2014 14:39, Dieter BSD wrote: > > If you must worry about names, "NEWCONS" could use improvement. It's called vt(4). Newcons is a nickname used during development, but is not official. You won't see it in the man page or documentation. > The more important problem is, does this "NEWCONS" thingy provide > a way to correct errors? For example, I am using a proper Unix > keyboard, but for some reason both the firmware and FreeBSD think > it is a horrid pee-cee style keyboard. ~/.xmodmap can fix this up, > but only for X. Does this "NEWCONS" thingy provide xmodmap type > functionality? This functionality has existed for two decades in FreeBSD - this is provided by the keymap files discussed in this thread. See kbdmap(5) if you need information to create your own keymap (if an existing one is not available for your keyboard configuration). >> And de_CH and fr_CH differ just in whether "=C3=A4=C3=B6=C3=BC" or "=C3= =A9=C3=A0=C3=A8" ... > > Another problem is that whatever characters those are do not > display properly in an xterm window. And pasting them into > emacs doesn't work either. They work fine here in an xterm and in a vt(4) console, assuming the locale is set appropriately (e.g., en_CA.UTF-8 in my case).