From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 13:22:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DECA37B801 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.its.uu.se ([130.238.7.19]:64497 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:22:01 +0100 Received: (qmail 2628 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Mar 2000 21:21:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:21:52 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Peter Losher Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <20000314222151.B2487@student.csd.uu.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter.Losher@nominum.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:21:27PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:21:27PM -0800, Peter Losher wrote: > > Bear with me, as character sets, etc. are pretty new to me... > > I do a lot of communication with individuals overseas, esp. in Norway, and > one thing that has bugged me to no end since switching my home box > platform from Windows to FreeBSD was the inability to type "extended > characters", like the "a ring", "o slash", "ae", etc. In the case of the > "a ring", I was able to replicate that in Windows using the old DOS > ALT-codes. > ALT-codes work fine in the FreeBSD console too. (But not in X-windows.) > I searched the FreeBSD-questions, and Pine-info archives to get some > insight in how I could do this ("keyboard mapping", etc.), but to no > avail. Does anyone have any info, or know of a web page, of how to achive > this on a US-101 keyboard? > First remember that FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) doesn't know or care what the markings on your keyboard are. You can just change the mappings to whatever you wish. Do a 'man kbdcontrol' for more info. (Short version: Put the line keymap="norwegian.iso" in your /etc/rc.conf and your keyboard will act like a norwegian keyboard.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message