Hi all.  I am relatively new to Unix.  Not quite a newbie but close.
Recently I installed Solaris 10 for x86.  I pretty much accepted all
the defaults on install.  The system has come up perfectly except for
a single thing.  The 'keyboard mapping' is all screwed up.  For
example:
<|> key is <~> key.  When I press the <~> key I get a <?>.  Can't even
find the </> key.  Here's what I've done with no effect:
Changed the TERM environment variable to VT100 and exported it
Changed the 'terminal character encoding' via the [Set Character
Encoding] menu on the 'terminal window' to many different
Changed keyboard behaviour via the 'launch menu' [launch][preferences]
[desktop preferences][keyboard][behavior][layout options] to many
Searched the net for every set of keywords on the issue I can think of

Apart from this, the installation seem to be working perfectly.  Does
anybody know why this is happening?

On 2009-07-07 05:23:04 +0100, togbabe <togbabe@yahoo.co.uk> said:

> Hi all.  I am relatively new to Unix.  Not quite a newbie but close.
> Recently I installed Solaris 10 for x86.  I pretty much accepted all
> the defaults on install.  The system has come up perfectly except for
> a single thing.  The 'keyboard mapping' is all screwed up.  For
> example:
> <|> key is <~> key.  When I press the <~> key I get a <?>.  Can't even
> find the </> key.  Here's what I've done with no effect:

Try the kbd command to set the keyboard's language; you might need to 
set the default language using the eeprom command as well.

-- 
Chris

togbabe wrote:
> Hi all.  I am relatively new to Unix.  Not quite a newbie but close.
> Recently I installed Solaris 10 for x86.  I pretty much accepted all
> the defaults on install.  The system has come up perfectly except for
> a single thing.  The 'keyboard mapping' is all screwed up.  For
> example:
> <|> key is <~> key.  When I press the <~> key I get a <?>.  Can't even
> find the </> key.  Here's what I've done with no effect:
> Changed the TERM environment variable to VT100 and exported it
> Changed the 'terminal character encoding' via the [Set Character
> Encoding] menu on the 'terminal window' to many different
> Changed keyboard behaviour via the 'launch menu' [launch][preferences]
> [desktop preferences][keyboard][behavior][layout options] to many
> Searched the net for every set of keywords on the issue I can think of
> 
> Apart from this, the installation seem to be working perfectly.  Does
> anybody know why this is happening?

Probably something to do with how you answered questions about the 
language and character set when you installed Solaris.  English is not 
ONE language!  There are variations in pronunciation and spelling that 
reveal or give clues to your nationality, education, socio-economic 
status, etc, etc.  U.S. English is not the same as British English is 
not the same as the lanugage spoken in Australia (they speak "strine" 
:-), etc.

IIRC there are at least two choices of keyboard for "English" (1 and 
50??)  and there may be more than that.

On Jul 7, 8:37=A0pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> togbabe wrote:
> > Hi all. =A0I am relatively new to Unix. =A0Not quite a newbie but close=
..
> > Recently I installed Solaris 10 for x86. =A0I pretty much accepted all
> > the defaults on install. =A0The system has come up perfectly except for
> > a single thing. =A0The 'keyboard mapping' is all screwed up. =A0For
> > example:
> > <|> key is <~> key. =A0When I press the <~> key I get a <?>. =A0Can't e=
ven
> > find the </> key. =A0Here's what I've done with no effect:
> > Changed the TERM environment variable to VT100 and exported it
> > Changed the 'terminal character encoding' via the [Set Character
> > Encoding] menu on the 'terminal window' to many different
> > Changed keyboard behaviour via the 'launch menu' [launch][preferences]
> > [desktop preferences][keyboard][behavior][layout options] to many
> > Searched the net for every set of keywords on the issue I can think of
>
> > Apart from this, the installation seem to be working perfectly. =A0Does
> > anybody know why this is happening?
>
> Probably something to do with how you answered questions about the
> language and character set when you installed Solaris. =A0English is not
> ONE language! =A0There are variations in pronunciation and spelling that
> reveal or give clues to your nationality, education, socio-economic
> status, etc, etc. =A0U.S. English is not the same as British English is
> not the same as the lanugage spoken in Australia (they speak "strine"
> :-), etc.
>
> IIRC there are at least two choices of keyboard for "English" (1 and
> 50??) =A0and there may be more than that.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I thought I was pretty careful about that.  Made sure every choose was
either U.S. English or Australasia, Brisbane locality etc.  I will go
back to the beginning I guess and choose very very carefully and see
what gives.