On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:18:05PM +0100, Juan A. Moreno wrote:
> Hi
> I'm trying to put the console in Unicode mode following the instructions from
> chapter 7.6 in the LFS book svn version. I'm a spanish native speaker and
> this is my /etc/sysconfig/console file:
>
> # Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
>
> UNICODE="1"
> KEYMAP="es"
> KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
> LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
> FONT="lat9w-16 -m 8859-15"
>
> # End /etc/sysconfig/console
>
> I get correctly the 'euro' symbol and the ñ (ntilde) in the console but when
> I
> try to get accents with the dead keys of my 'es' keyboard I get -'a- instead
> of -á-.
> The same with é, í, ó, ú.
>
> It's possible to obtain the spanish accents in the current version of LFS?
>
I don't know if a "standard" keymap is available to do this,
perhaps you can find one somewhere (e.g. from a host distro).
In particular, I don't know how you are used to accessing the dead
keys. I'm attaching my own map as an example (it's on the lfs
server, but apache seems unable to decide how to serve it). Take a
copy of the existing map, rename it, then work on the renamed
version (with a root session in another term, using the original
map, in case things go wrongly).
My needs are slightly different from yours - as a Briton, I have no
tradition of using dead keys, but recent xorg provides them anyway
(use AltGr and a symbol). I wanted to access as many dead keys as
possible, but they only work for glyphs in latin1 on the console
(not even å - I had to use a different method for that on the
console). My € (euro) is on AltGr-4 which might not match your
keyboard.
My map allows me to use the following:
tilde AltGr + ] (']' is two keys beyond P in GB) only on ñõ
circumflex AltGr + = ('=' is two keys beyond 0) only on ç
The following are only available on vowels in the console
acute AltGr + ; (';' is next to L ) áéíóú
circumflex AltGr + ' ("'" is two keys beyond L) âêîôû
grave AltGr + # ('#' is three keys beyond PP) àèìòò
diaeresis AltGr + [ ('[' is next to P) äëïöü also ÿ
There are various other things tucked away in my map.
ĸen
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# uk.map altered to ease UTF-8, compose, dead accents
#
# The display of non latin1 characters does not work in distributions using
# console-tools, even if you add the unicode.map from the kbd package.
# For some reason, the non-ascii character codes seem to get garbled, at
# least on ppc.
#
# Note that this defaults to latin1, any other characters
# can _only_ be specified by unicode number, and the
# result ('to') of a 'compose' must be in the latin1 charmap.
#
# So, although I really wanted to replicate what happens for me
# in X, I can't do it all - prioritise W. European, plus
# hungarian (polish, czech have too many other letters)
#keymaps 0-2,4-6,8,9,12
# these keymaps are a bit excessive, at the time I couldn't
# find the docs and this does make AltGr and Shift+AltGr work.
keymaps 0-15
alt_is_meta
include "qwerty-layout"
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr"
# key any mapped unicode letter by ctrl-shift plus XXXX for the hex digits
include "unicode.map"
strings as usual
# NB I use U+ notation for characters not in latin1 - dumpkeys will report the
# name, but loading by name gives messages about assume iso-8859-x (where x !=
1)
# and produces the wrong result.
#
# Strangely, console-tools produces the messages and errors even when I use
# the U+xxxx form. It also translates U+201E to a symbol name which it then
# claims to not recognise.
# Normal Shift AltGr AltGr+Shift
keycode 1 = Escape
keycode 2 = one exclam one U+00A1
keycode 3 = two quotedbl at U+201E
keycode 4 = three sterling
control keycode 4 = Escape
# euro on AltGr 4 - 'currency' doesn't work for me
keycode 5 = four dollar U+20AC
Control_backslash
keycode 6 = five percent
control keycode 6 = Control_bracketright
keycode 7 = six asciicircum
control keycode 7 = Control_asciicircum
keycode 8 = seven ampersand braceleft
Control_underscore
keycode 9 = eight asterisk bracketleft Delete
keycode 10 = nine parenleft bracketright
keycode 11 = zero parenright braceright
# alt keycode 11 = Meta_parenright
keycode 12 = minus underscore backslash U+00BF
#keycode 13 = equal plus dead_cedilla dead_ogonek
keycode 13 = equal plus dead_cedilla
keycode 14 = Delete
control keycode 14 = Control_underscore
keycode 15 = Tab
# łŁ on w
keycode 17 = w W U+0142 U+0141
# u with double acute
keycode 22 = u U U+0171 U+0170
# extra on o ø and Ø can be accessed from compose / o, compose / O
# so put the double-acute here : it isn't latin-1.
keycode 24 = o O U+0151 U+0150
# extra on p
keycode 25 = p P thorn THORN
#keycode 26 = bracketleft braceleft dead_diaeresis dead_ring
keycode 26 = bracketleft braceleft dead_diaeresis
control keycode 26 = Escape
#keycode 27 = bracketright braceright dead_tilde dead_macron
keycode 27 = bracketright braceright dead_tilde
keycode 28 = Return
alt keycode 28 = Meta_Control_m
keycode 29 = Control
# add extras to 'a'
keycode 30 = +a +A ae AE
# extra on s
keycode 31 = s S U+00DF
# extras on 'd'
keycode 32 = d D eth ETH
# add kra to k (iso-8859-4 so specify as U+)
keycode 37 = k K U+0138
# łŁ also on l
keycode 38 = l L U+0142 U+0141
#keycode 39 = semicolon colon dead_acute dead_doubleacute
keycode 39 = semicolon colon dead_acute
#keycode 40 = apostrophe at dead_circumflex dead_caron
keycode 40 = apostrophe at dead_circumflex
control keycode 40 = Control_g
shift control keycode 40 = nul
keycode 41 = grave notsign bar nul
keycode 42 = Shift
keycode 43 = numbersign asciitilde dead_grave dead_breve
control keycode 43 = Control_backslash
# extra on z «
keycode 44 = z Z U+00AB
# extra on x »
keycode 45 = x X U+00BB
keycode 51 = comma less
keycode 52 = period greater
#keycode 53 = slash question slash
dead_abovedot
keycode 53 = slash question slash
control keycode 53 = Delete
keycode 54 = Shift
keycode 56 = Alt
keycode 57 = space
control keycode 57 = nul
keycode 58 = Caps_Lock
keycode 86 = backslash bar bar
Control_backslash
keycode 97 = Control
# right windows key and right menu key both mapped to Compose -
# my normal keyboards have one or other of these
keycode 126 = Compose
keycode 127 = Compose
include "compose.latin1"
# looks as if U+ compose results only work if in the same iso-8859-x set,
# and the default charset is iso-8859-1
# e.g. can put aring in (also on oa, aa)
compose '=' 'a' to U+00E5
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