Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:14:45 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console Message-ID: <20171211201445.3694e4148bee74ab06d1aa00@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <AM5PR0902MB19234ED66F30D3B1DDC8942ADC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> References: <AM5PR0902MB19234ED66F30D3B1DDC8942ADC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:08:12 +0000 Vitalio D <v.dol_s@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > I've put the vt back (i.e put the original (empty in my > case) /boot/loader.conf ) and set the keymap in rc.conf to fr.iso.kbd. Hmm fr.iso.kbd is a syscons keymap, I'm not sure what happens if you try and load it. Try fr.acc.kbd from /usr/share/vt/keymaps - or use kbdmap to pick one. > Unfortunately this did not work. When trying to type french 'é' nothing > happens. When trying to read a french handbook such accent letters are > just missing, for example french préférez becomes prfrez. Hmm sounds like the handbook you tried is in ISO8859-1 not UTF-8. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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