newcons and beeping X

[Ed Maste]

On 1 May 2014 13:00, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach at mailplus.pl> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the situation is the same on
> FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r265185 amd64.
>
> newcons uses my X font (terminus),

Newcons' font is built-in, it's not using your X font.  (It just
happens that you and Ed made the same choice.)

> albeit it produces
> no polish letters (some random glyphs are produced),
...
> keymap=pl_PL.ISO8859-2

Oh, here's the issue - we need a UTF-8 Polish keyboard map.  It's the
input path that's confused.

Newcons can display Polish characters fine - you should be able to
confirm this is working by running
/usr/bin/printf \\305\\201
which should give you a stroked L (Ł).

There's some explanation in Aleksandr's blog post:
http://raybsd.blogspot.ca/2013/10/newcons-international-keyboard-input.html