Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:08:12 +0000 From: Vitalio D <v.dol_s@hotmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console Message-ID: <AM5PR0902MB19234ED66F30D3B1DDC8942ADC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
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>> Hello, >>=20 >>I'm running 11.1-STABLE snapshot from November. By default my vty driver >>is vt(4) as seen from sysctl kern.vty >>kern.vty=3Dvt >>=20 >>I've tried to configure french keyboard so to be able to see and type >>accentuated characters, but could not succeed. >>=20 >> I've amended ~/.login_conf with >> me:\ >> :charset=3DISO-8859-1:\ >> :lang=3Dfr_FR.ISO-8859-1: > The vt terminal only supports UTF-8 and will display UTF-8 text >correctly no matter what the locale settings are. > > For typing you'll have to select an appropriate keyboard map that >supports typing accented characters, with us.acc.kbd the compose mechanism >works. 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. Unfortunately this did = not work. When trying to type french '=E9' nothing happens. When trying to = read a french handbook such accent letters are just missing, for example fr= ench pr=E9f=E9rez becomes prfrez. =
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