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Re: SuSE 10.2 and LOADNATIONALKEYB=1

Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote:
> In the Alt+F1 console kbd_mode returns UTF-8 and can be set to ASCII mode
> with no errors. However, neither mode can be used to decrypt the rootkey
> made up in Knoppix.

> All 3 runs are performed with kbd_mode -a and -u for ASCII and UTF-8 and
> result in the same output. So no difference between both encodings. How do
> they do that? Shouldn't it be different? At least for the special chars?

I forgot to mention that you have to load new keyboard layout before it
takes effect. As in:

    kbd_mode -a
    loadkeys /boot/default.kmap
or
    kbd_mode -u
    loadkeys /boot/default.kmap

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