German keyboard layout

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Helmut

Hi,

in /etc/login.conf I added

Code: 
german|German Users Accounts:\
    :charset=ISO-8859-15:\
    :lang=de_DE.ISO8859-15:\
    :tc=default:

and then ran

Code: 
sudo cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

/etc.rc.conf has

Code: 
keymap="de"

After that I did

Code: 
sudo pw user mod helmut -L german

Code: 
[helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ sudo grep helmut /etc/master.passwd
helmut:*:1001:1001:german:0:0:Helmut:/home/helmut:/usr/local/bin/bash
[helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$

Then reboot. But german umlauts are still not displayed. What did I miss?

Code: 
[helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD BSDHelmut 12.2-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p10 12803d8a9(releng/12.2) GENERIC-PF-ALTQ  amd64
[helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$

Thank you!
 
Try a to use a ~/.login_conf in your user’s home directory with the following contents
Code: 
me:\
    :charset=UTF-8:\
    :setenv=LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8:\
    :lang=de_DE.UTF-8:

(Note the filename has an underscore, not a dot.)

And don't forget to run
Code: 
cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf

If you use Xorg add this to .xinitrc:
Code: 
setxkbmap de -variant nodeadkeys -model pc105

Edit: Adding users to language groups is totally new to me, never needed this.
 
If you want that system wide in 12.2 :

/etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
keymap="de"

Add in /etc/login.conf (choose login class for user):
Code: 
default:\
    ...
    :umask=022:\
    :charset=UTF-8:\
    :lang=C.UTF-8:

or for "german" login class:

german|German Users Accounts:\
    :charset=UTF-8:\
    :lang=C.UTF-8:\
    :tc=default:
Run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf, log out, log in, get umlauts in console.

For Xorg create /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf:
Code: 
Section "Input Class"
        Identifier      "All Keyboards"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection
 
Helmut said:
But german umlauts are still not displayed.
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Not displayed where? At the login prompt? From your user shell when logged in? Inside a graphical session?

eternal_noob said:
Edit: Adding users to language groups is totally new to me, never needed this.
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Never used it either, but I'm aware Russian spies are hidden somewhere in my system because they already set this up for themselves:
Code: 
russian|Russian Users Accounts:\
        :charset=UTF-8:\
        :lang=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
        :tc=default:
 
It should work with iso-8859-1/iso-8859-15 as well. But I wouldn't invest any time into that: those 8bit encodings are obsoleted by Unicode, most *nix systems nowadays use the UTF-8 representation of Unicode.

One important reason you should do the same is filenames. A Unix filename is just an array of octets (it doesn't have any encoding-information attached). So, if you created a file with some characters outside US-ASCII (7bit) in its name using e.g. an iso-8859-* encoding and try to display the filename using UTF-8, it will be broken.
 
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