From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: keymap et or keymap et-nodeadkeys does not load. loadkeys et at bash prompt does gives following error... Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/et.kmap.gz unknown keysym `currency' /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/et.kmap.gz:5: parse error syntax error in map file key bindings not changed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Just choose et in kbdconfig and try to load it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/keymap start or simply loadkeys et Additional info:
It has never loaded correctly on whatever RedHat Linux version. Use 'fi' keyboard settings instead and forget 'u'.
WORKAROUND: I have been using Ville Hallik's "ee-dump.kmap" for quite a while. It has all the Estonian characters that I ever use, except caron-s and caron-z, and these two exceptions may be a problem with the console font. (You can even get ^ using <Alt Gr>+D.) How to download and use this file: 1. Download http://linux.ee/~ville/ee-keymaps/ee-keymaps-1.2.tar.gz. 2. tar xvzf ee-keymaps-1.2.tar.gz 3. gzip -9 ee-keymaps-1.2/linux-console/ee-dump.kmap 4. (as SuperUser) cp ee-keymaps-1.2/linux-console/ee-dump.kmap.gz /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty 5. setup -> Keyboard configuration select ee-dump Additional information in Estonian is available at http://linux.ee/~ville/ee-keymaps/index.html
I see that Bugzilla doesn't accept non-ascii characters. My comment about being able to type ^ got transformed - the "D" should be a-umlaut: you can get ^ by using <Alt Gr>+<a-umlaut>.
Better workaround: I found that loadkeys is choking on the string "currency" in the euro include file, /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/euro.inc.gz If you gunzip this file, edit it to change "currency" to "0xa4" and gzip it, you should be able to loadkeys et.kmap. That is, setup -> Keyboard configuration and select "et". (If you want to use the cent character, you can also uncomment the cent line in euro.inc.) In order to view the s-caron (sh), z-caron (zh) and euro characters, on character consoles, you should edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n and change SYSFONTACM to iso15. I noticed that this is configured correctly as a result of selecting an Estonian keyboard (or adding Estonian language) during Skipjack beta-2 installation. I'm still working on how to view these characters from the Gnome desktop, but this is no longer a console-tools problem.
estonian is currently not supported on utf-8 console on current distros.