Keyboard: Problems with German Umlauts: ?. ?, ? ...

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Dec 14 07:48:26 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:53:11PM +0100, Dr. Christoph Hornung wrote:
> - I easily got the german "layout" (like German position of y and z keys)
> - however, after playing about around with /.../keymaps/german.iso.kbd, it 
> seems to me that only 7-bit characters are supported. When mapping 7-bit 
> characters (like 'a', '<' etc on to the ?, ? keys, everything works fine.

For the console, add this to /etc/rc.conf:
keymap=german.iso.kbd
font8x16=iso-8x16.fnt

For X11, use this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Keyboard0"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

No need to work with screen mappings for the basic stuff.

Joerg





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