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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UK keyboard woes
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:11:48 GMT
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stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk (Stuart Broderick) wrote:
>Anyone had any success getting the  " ` " symbol to work on a UK
>keyboard under FreeBSD V2.1 ?  If so, please share the secret :-)

I simply put

keymap="uk.cp850"

in /etc/sysconfig, and all the keys on my keyboard appear to generate the
appropriate codes.