Spanish keyboard layout (with accented keys and Euro symbol)

[lince]

During the FreeBSD installation process we can select a keyboard layout. In my case I chose Spanish but, when I logged into the system, there were no accented vowels or Euro symbol in console. In order to enable these characters I modified /etc/rc.conf and /etc/login.conf following these steps:

1. At the end of /etc/rc.conf I added:

[B]font8x8="iso15-8x8"
font8x14="iso15-8x14"
font8x16="iso15-8x16"
scrnmap="NO"
keymap="spanish.iso.acc"[/B]

2. In /etc/login.conf, just after the line umask=022: I added:

umask=022:[B]\
charset=ISO-8859-15:\
lang=es_ES.ISO8859-15:[/B]

3. Finally, I run the following command to register modifications:

# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

and rebooted the system for the changes to take effect.

 

[Martillo1]

I put charset and lang specifications in ~/.login_conf.

See "24.3.4.1.1.1 User Level Setup" in Handbook: Using Localization.

Un saludo, apañero

 

[lince]

The result is the same... system-wide with the first method and user-specific with the second.

Thank you, Martillo1.

(Saludos, FreeBSDero )

 

[tramullas]

Not working on Sun Blade 2000

I have the same problem on a fresh installation on a Sun Blade 2000... but this solution doesn't work. I receive the error message

keymap font8x8vidcontrol: loading fonts: invalid argument

Some idea?

Thanks,

Jesús

 

[naruk]

Hi,

lince solved my problem with the Spanish keyboard layout. However, I made some little changes in his code.

Note that I am totally new to FreeBSD, and although I am very excited about it, I do not know what I am doing, so take my answer with caution.

2. In /etc/login.conf, just after the first time you find :umask=022: I added:

:umask=022:\
:charset=ISO-8859-15:\
:lang=es_ES.ISO8859-15:

 

[cpm@]

Note that it would be appropriate to change in /etc/rc.conf in case that you're using vt(4)

keymap="spanish.iso.acc"

to

keymap="es.acc"

See kbdmap(5) man page for further details.