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Gut question "How to I correct my keyboard map?"

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Previous answer contained information that was specific to some
unnamed release of FreeBSD (possibly 2.0.5, but not absolutely
certain).

New answer is a pointer to the Handbook, chapter and verse.
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</question>
<answer>
<para>The kbdcontrol program has an option to load a keyboard
map file. Under <filename>/usr/share/syscons/keymaps</filename>
are a number of map files. Choose the one relevant to your
system and load it.</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>kbdcontrol -l uk.iso</userinput></screen>
<para>Both the <filename>/usr/share/syscons/keymaps</filename>
and the <filename>.kbd</filename> extension are assumed by
&man.kbdcontrol.1;.</para>
<para>This can be configured in <filename>/etc/sysconfig</filename>
(or
&man.rc.conf.5;). See the appropriate comments in this
file.</para>
<para>In 2.0.5R and later, everything related to text fonts,
keyboard mapping is in
<filename>/usr/share/examples/syscons</filename>.</para>
<para>The following mappings are currently supported:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Belgian ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Brazilian 275 keyboard Codepage 850</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Brazilian 275 keyboard ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Danish Codepage 865</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Danish ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>French ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>German Codepage 850</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>German ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Italian ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Japanese 106</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Japanese 106x</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Latin American</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Norwegian ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Polish ISO-8859-2 (programmer's)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Russian Codepage 866 (alternative)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Russian koi8-r (shift)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Russian koi8-r</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Spanish ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Swedish Codepage 850</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Swedish ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Swiss-German ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>United Kingdom Codepage 850</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>United Kingdom ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>United States of America ISO-8859-1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>United States of America dvorak</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>United States of America dvorakx</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Please see the Handbook section on <ulink
url="../handbook/using-localization.html">using
localization</ulink>, specifically the section on <ulink
url="../handbook/using-localization.html#SETTING-CONSOLE">console
setup</ulink>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>