Localization and Key Mapping

Character Sets
The standard character set containing danish characters is ISO-8859-1, also named 'Latin1 (West European)'

There is also a special Nordic set, ISO-8859-10, also named 'Latin6 (Nordic)'

Keyboard Setup

 * 1) vim /etc/rc.conf

KEYMAP="us" SET_WINDOWSKEYS="yes" EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace" CONSOLEFONT="lat9v-14"

If you are using Gentoo, you can reload the keymap after having made any changes:


 * 1) /etc/init.d/keymaps restart