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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: German keyboard Date: 2 Apr 1997 00:42:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5hsa1q$kja@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc3ea3$43d78380$232c3d9b@muna019> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38245 "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> wrote: > I use a German keyboard and tried to make my FreeBSD 2.1.5 display German > characters - without success. > Anyone can help me out? I'm personally using pcvt with a _really_ twisted keyboard layout. However, whenever i install a new system (or a test-installation etc.), what i'm usually selecting is: . german iso keyboard layout (now early in the installation, it gets into effect immediately within sysinstall) . iso8859-1 fonts For an MDA screen, you can't download fonts of course, so _instead_ install a screenmap from iso8859-1 to ibm437. All these are now options in sysinstall. I never bother to make the respective entries into /etc/sysconfig by hand. Finally, you might want to change your TERM variable from cons25 to cons25l1 (Latin-1 support). That's in /etc/ttys. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)