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vladuz976

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From: Venice, CA

Registered: 2005-11-04

Posts: 108

locale settings problem

I have a japanese laptop and problems getting the keymap setting right.
"underscore" key currently dead.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

my settings:
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vladuz ~  $  locale -a
C
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.utf8
deutsch
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
german
ja_JP
ja_JP.eucjp
ja_JP.ujis
ja_JP.utf8
japanese
japanese.euc
POSIX
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vladuz ~  $  locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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/etc/rc.conf:
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Japan"
KEYMAP="jp106"
CONSOLEMAP=""
USECOLOR="yes"

Cheesebaron

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 65

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Re: locale settings problem

You might want to make a en_JP.UTF-8 locale, that makes the system speak english and the keyboard japanese.

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Mr.Elendig

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From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: locale settings problem

A small sidenote, in rc.conf: LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" is wrong, it should be LOCALE="en_US.utf8"

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