Loading console keymap on boot

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#1

Bon appetit folks,

During boot-up of openSUSE 11.2 (dup’d from 11.1; default runlevel 3) the following message appears:

Loading keymap assuming iso-8859-15 euro

I remember changing the keymap to be loaded from ‘de-latin1-nodeadkeys’ to ‘de-latin1’ back in 11.1, and I believe that’s when the message started appearing. And before changing this in, iirc, /etc/sysconfig/language, I for a while had set the keymap manually using an UTF-8 option.

My question now: Is there a way to tell SUSE to set the above mentioned keymap using UTF-8 encoding instead of assuming ISO-8859-15?

The few Google search results (~7) on this topic also seem to indicate that this is a ‘German-only’ problem because it only seems to appear when setting German keymaps.

Greetings

vzduch a.k.a. szal

#2

Yast - System - /etc/sysconfig editor. Use the search function to look for LC, keymap, or 8859. AFAIK utf-8 is the standard now.

#3

Searching for “LC” delivers the following values in /etc/sysconfig/language:

AUTO_DETECT_UTF8   no
RC_LANG            en_US.UTF-8
RC_LC_ALL          <not set>
RC_LC_COLLATE      <not set>
RC_LC_CTYPE        <not set>
RC_LC_MESSAGES     <not set>
RC_LC_MONETARY     <not set>
RC_LC_NUMERIC      <not set>
RC_LC_PAPER        de_DE.UTF-8
RC_LC_TIME         <not set>
ROOT_USES_LANG     ctype

I guess I can safely omit search results in /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig and /etc/sysconfig/postfix.

Searching for “keymap” delivers 2 results from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard:

COMPOSETABLE   clear utf8  # I changed it to that from the ‘latin1.add’ compose table.
KEYTABLE       de-latin1.map.gz

I believe both of these are irrelevant to my question.

Searching for “8859” delivers no results.

As I see it, there is nothing in there pointing towards an ISO-8859 encoding. So the question remains: Why does SUSE assume that it should be used for the keymap?

#4

bump Still no ideas? :slight_smile:

#5

vzduch wrote:
> Searching for “LC” delivers the following values in
> /etc/sysconfig/language:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> AUTO_DETECT_UTF8 no
> RC_LANG en_US.UTF-8
> [snip]
> --------------------

CAUTION: i freely admit i don’t know what i’m doing, and what i’m
about to type may be all wrong, but:

shouldn’t that RC_LANG en_US.UTF-8
be RC_LANG de_DE.UTF-8

note: before doing anything, read this: http://tinyurl.com/6aagco

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palladium

#6

It seems to me that UTF-8 is irrelevant to a keymap. UTF-8 specifies an encoding for transmission and storage, whereas a keymap specifies what character is generated by each position on your keyboard. Whether it generates a Latin-1 encoding or a UTF-8 encoding is handled elsewhere. For example my keymap is US even though I’m in Australia because that’s the keyboard we use here (we have $ not £). 8859-15 contains the € sign.

#7

According to this SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 10) - Installation and Administration - Language and Country-Specific Settings it sets the fallback language, english.

#8

ah…thank you!

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palladium

#9

I set the system-wide language to en_US, so I assume this to be correct. What made you think of de_DE? The ‘RC_PAPER’ value? That is just so the system knows I don’t have any US paper formats available here, thus sparing me some hassle when printing. :wink:

#10

obviously i didn’t know what i was talking about…a fact i warned
before hand…sorry for confusing… (sometimes i get lucky when
imagining what might work)

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palladium