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#! rnews 1603 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.18.199.254!wotan.compaq.com!twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!news From: "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> Subject: German keyboard Message-ID: <01bc3ea3$43d78380$232c3d9b@muna019> Sender: news@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com (System Administrator) Organization: Compaq Computer Corp. Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:49:17 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 155.61.44.35 Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38268 I use a German keyboard and tried to make my FreeBSD 2.1.5 display German characters - without success. I tried kbdmap, vidfont, kbdcontrol and vidcontrol without success: *) vidfont sets another display font (8x16), that's what's visible to me *) if I select the German ISO keyboard in "kbdmap", "kbdcontrol -d" lists the proper character ASCII value for e.g the German u-umlaut, but when I hit the u-umlaut key (or any of the keys with specific German characters on them), nothing happens (all "umlaut"-keys seem to be dead keys) *) I can see the German a-umlaut when i export "LANG=de" and call "kbdmap": the top and bottom borderlines of the keyboard selection window contain a-umlauts in uppercase; the character itself can be displayed, it seems Anyone can help me out?