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From: se@parc03.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: German Keyboard... I want!
Date: 15 Feb 1995 20:37:36 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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In article <1995Feb14.170337.4036@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke) writes:
|> 
|> >Armed with 400k FAQ and 300MB Software I wanted to make my
|> >FreeBSD 2.0R to show an "Î" after typing "Î" ("oe"), but I
|> >coudn't manage it. I found german.iso.kbd and kbdcontrol for
|> >it, but kbdcontrol -v -d only produces an error (inappropiate
|> >io-device...)..
|> 
|> kbdctrl -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd
|> 
|> By reasons I do not precisely understand the german.iso.kbd
|> doesn't work for me (if I remember right, it produces the correct Umlauts,
|> but fails on stuff like ><| ect... ).

Yes, I wondered about that for quite some time now ...
I've built my own "german.iso.kbd", merged from those 
parts of german.iso.kbd and german.cp850.kbd that 
looked right.

Will try to get those into FreeBSD-current !

Regards, STefan
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