[Bug 263509] FreeBSD Handbook: improve the context for kbdmap(1) ; and use the phrase "keyboard layout"

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Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 04:36:59 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263509

PauAmma <pauamma@gundo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from PauAmma <pauamma@gundo.com> ---
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1)

> keymap: /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/uk.iso.kbd
>
> None of the four United Kingdom options in kbdmap produces that map, so (I
> guess) kbdmap is not wholly useful for testing keymaps without rebooting.

I suspect this is because kbdmap (correctly) looks into /usr/share/vt/keymaps
when sysctl kern.vty is set to "vt", and the near-equivalent (diff -u says it
uses UTF-8 instead of ISO 8859 for the euro sign) is called
/usr/share/vt/keymaps/uk.kbd instead. (This may or may not be an oversight.
Maybe use of UTF-8 was the rationale for changing the name.)


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263315
[Bug 263315] Tracking bug for the FreeBSD handbook revamping contract
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