Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:21:52 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <20000314222151.B2487@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003131712210.73877-100000@svalbard.nominum.com>; from Peter.Losher@nominum.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:21:27PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003131712210.73877-100000@svalbard.nominum.com>
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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.)
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