Subject: Re: Encoding
To: Emil Edeholt <edeholt@home.se>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/18/2001 10:03:56
Emil Edeholt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a total newbie to NetBSD (and unix in general), I've installed 
> the base.tgz,comp.tgz,man.tgz,etc.tgz and kern.tgz and the OS seems 
> to work fine (except that I have to mount -u -w; mtree -def 
> /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist -p / -u everytime I boot to be able to write 
> to the disk).
> 
> But I can't get the encoding to work (well it works, but in us mode), 
> and I can't almost do anything without it being set to swedish (i.e. 
> I can't use the colon which vi needs for commands).
> 
> When I wsconsctl -w encoding=sv I get the error message: "wsconsctl: 
> WSKBDIO_SETENCODING: Invalid argument". I thought that it had 
> something to do with wscons not being wscons=YES in the rc.conf, but 
> I have now echoed that line to rc.conf and it still doesn't work (I 
> have not been able to set the rc_configured=NO to rc_configured=YES 
> since I can't use a texteditor without the right encoding).
> 
> I've been searching the archive here, but haven't found anything, 
> just someone who had problems with French...
> 
> Thanks for your time. ANY ideas at all are highly appreciated, 
> because I sooo wanna get started on this cool netbsd-thing.

no one has contributed a swedish keymap for wscons for mac68k yet.  if
you'd like to contribute one, please submit a PR to get it working.  you
would basically need to add a new keysym_t array to
sys/arch/mac68k/dev/akbdmap.h.

thanks!

colin