From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 11 20:15:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573A3E9D372 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2234F76F6C for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1513023306; x=1515615306; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TNHlsj4UD4jpTTzEHD5uToMHdnQ8D6R6QU+F0S4AVfY=; b=I0imvnLgf9+/nQ6CPoZxIQJI9GqDsPH8G8/tk90xr06BzZLhTNamc32PqCQSq57oiSXHR/9UiockX0YaNKf2TLXfR+cD48XXEWMzfRjJANpeUAcYR6HFVzX9wIXYqt++ZB3/QOifKZhCpKxHa/aKvGBL8aDil4I5pzR/GUDIQPs= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi44MTAwMDAwMDZlNzVkMy5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r2.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com [54.186.58.227]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:14:53 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:14:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1eOUTO-000NKZ-1M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:14:46 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:14:45 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console Message-Id: <20171211201445.3694e4148bee74ab06d1aa00@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:15:02 -0000 On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:08:12 +0000 Vitalio D wrote: > Hi Steve, > I've put the vt back (i.e put the original (empty in my > case) /boot/loader.conf ) and set the keymap in rc.conf to fr.iso.kbd. Hmm fr.iso.kbd is a syscons keymap, I'm not sure what happens if you try and load it. Try fr.acc.kbd from /usr/share/vt/keymaps - or use kbdmap to pick one. > Unfortunately this did not work. When trying to type french 'é' nothing > happens. When trying to read a french handbook such accent letters are > just missing, for example french préférez becomes prfrez. Hmm sounds like the handbook you tried is in ISO8859-1 not UTF-8. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith