change keyboard on solaris

simpi · 11-24-2008, 07:41 AM

Hello we have solaris 9 on our server and I need to switch keyboard to czech. I need to write a few national characters and then switch it back. But I can't find command. We have no X server I need command.
Thanks

TB0ne · 11-24-2008, 08:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simpi

Hello we have solaris 9 on our server and I need to switch keyboard to czech. I need to write a few national characters and then switch it back. But I can't find command. We have no X server I need command.
Thanks

Try Google:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806...fipqu5v?a=view

simpi · 11-27-2008, 10:02 AM

is it possible to switch keyboard only in terminal? Not for whole solaris. It si on SUN HW and I don't have permissions to restart it and do these steps. I just need to write a few national characters.

jlliagre · 11-29-2008, 01:43 PM

What do you mean "in terminal" ? If you are using a remote terminal or terminal emulator, it is there where the keyboard layout should be configured.

Or perhaps are you using the local keyboard in console mode ?

simpi · 11-30-2008, 05:07 AM

I'm connecting to this solaris server remotely using putty. On PC where I'm connecting from I have cyech keyboard but I can't write czech characters on that solaris. I always have only ENG layout.

jlliagre · 11-30-2008, 06:29 AM

That doesn't make much sense. Solaris has no idea and isn't concerned anyway about your keyboard layout when you are connecting remotely.

Perhaps the issue you have is the character encoding you use on the Solaris box.

Can you describe better the issue you have ? i.e. what key you press and what is displayed instead.

simpi · 12-18-2008, 03:44 AM

well on my machine I have set czech keyboard. So instead of keys 1-0 I have national characters(ěščřžýáíé). When I log to that Solaris using Putty and press these keys it writes this: l9hx>}ami.
I'm not able to write there czech letters.

When I want to use copy/paste these national chars to solaris it displays me again only l9hx>}ami.

jlliagre · 01-05-2009, 07:42 AM

Either something is stripping the 8th bit or are you using the wrong character set on Solaris.

What return these commands:

Code:

locale
locale -m
locale -a | grep cs
stty -a
nawk 'BEGIN { printf("%c\n",208); }'