Keyboard layout for Your country

[Strawberry_Monty]

Haven't seen any guide here for making the keyboard showing Your national characters - like german or swedish Ö in the console (that is from boot).

Not that the national charaters are exactly usefull in console due to the OS's english nature - BUT by god - You need to have the keyboard configured to enter a simple # char by pressing the corresponding key with that symbol.

Else You get all kinds of other chars (like a silly pound sign etc.).

go sudo (or call for him) - the SUPERUSER and write:

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

wait a moment and select keyboard type (default marked) and Your language (indo zulu or whatever..)

at end reboot (by writing that or kill the fruit by unpowering)

note: wonder why not anyone else has asked for this - i tried search. Maybe only english ppl get a Pi and therefore not any problems with the layout...

[pluggy]

It doesn't ,come up that much because its part of the initial configuration on the Raspbian image.

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sudo raspi-config

will get you into it after the event.

[Strawberry_Monty]

Mine did not ask for any configuration at all. Maybe because i did'nt have the network connected....

[pyter]

None of the options above is really working...
I've tried to create a script and register it to run on startup but nothing happened...

Could it be the drivers?

[pluggy]

Its only recent versions of the image that have the raspi-config. If you bought a preloaded SD card (which typically have old images) it won't work.

[pyter]

Its only recent versions of the image that have the raspi-config. If you bought a preloaded SD card (which typically have old images) it won't work.

Not the case. I've downloaded from here. But after a while I've managed to fix it.

Create this file

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sudo nano /home/pi/.xsessionrc

Insert inside the file (this example is for Portuguese layout):

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setxkbmap pt

Save it and reboot it.

Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 66&t=17371

[SiriusHardware]

Haven't seen any guide here for making the keyboard showing Your national characters -

note: wonder why not anyone else has asked for this - i tried search. Maybe only english ppl get a Pi and therefore not any problems with the layout...

Some of the surplus/cheap keyboards available in Britain are of American origin, or were made for the American market and then wrongly imported into Britain, for which they are not really suitable: Several of the keys have some of the characters in the wrong places, and of course we Brits do use that silly pound sign which is missing from the American layout.

We can't solve the problem of the keyboard not having a Pound sign, but we can make the symbols on the keys match the ones which appear on the screen by using your guide to set the key layout to American, to match the keyboard. I have about 5-6 very nice mini USB keyboards - USA layout - which I salvaged from equipment which came with them at work.

If RS ever delivers my other Pi I will use one of them with that.

[toxibunny]

Bought myself a keyboard the other day which turned out to be Czech. Switched it to Czech, and now all my symbols match the ones on the keys, but it's HORRIBLE. Poor Czechies have to press shift just to type numbers! And the brackets are all wrong... I'm going to switch back to the UK layout and just remember where the symbols are...

[malakai]

As an American I must admit when you say it doesn't have a pound sign I think of this # it's Shift+3 on our keyboard. But then I have to think is it £ which is also Shift+3 as I am assuming you call our pound a hash maybe.

If nothing this thing is culturally educational and since my $ is not worth an ounce of a £ I guess we were wise in dropping the term from our currency.

[SiriusHardware]

As an American I must admit when you say it doesn't have a pound sign I think of this # it's Shift+3 on our keyboard. But then I have to think is it £ which is also Shift+3 as I am assuming you call our pound a hash maybe.

Yes, in British english the (#) symbol is called a 'hash'.

If nothing this thing is culturally educational and since my $ is not worth an ounce of a £ I guess we were wise in dropping the term from our currency.

That's quite interesting - you (Americans) call this (#) a 'Pound'? On a British keyboard shift-3 has this (£), which is the British Pound (currency) symbol. We do have the hash (#) character as well, but it is the unshifted character on the key to the left of the main carriage return (enter) key on a full sized British keyboard. These (and a couple of other differences) make American-layout keyboards slightly awkward to use on British computing devices.

I saw the (#) symbol referred to as 'Pound' in a programming book of USA origin and thought it must have been missed in the translation from the American to the British market version (or just not translated at all).

You Americans can at least take some consolation from the fact that the dominant size of your market means that much of the equipment made in the world is tailored for you - a good example would be clocks and watches - virtually all digital clocks and watches sold here in Britain now use the American Month / Day date format, whereas in the UK the date format used is Day / Month, although it is nearly impossible for us to find a clock which displays them in that order.

So cheer up!

[Tomin]

Keyboard configuration in rasp-config doesn't seem to work. I've set my keyboard layout to Finnish on very first boot, but it's still something else (US?). Something it changes though as rasp-config remembers that I've chosen Finnish layout. Next I'm going to try dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration.

[Sleep Mode zZ]

Keyboard configuration in rasp-config doesn't seem to work. I've set my keyboard layout to Finnish on very first boot, but it's still something else (US?). Something it changes though as rasp-config remembers that I've chosen Finnish layout. Next I'm going to try dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration.

Look at pyter's solution above. Instead of "pt" use "fi".

[Tomin]

Interesting. I had used a different keyboard previously and now when I plugged it back I found myself writing with Finnish layout. Is this desired behaviour?

[buurmas]

This "remapping your keyboard" topic is also covered here:

http://elinux.org/index.php?title=R-Pi_ ... an_Squeeze

[bennyroger]

Thank you pyter, now I have the Norwegian ØÆÅ

[Mrloewe67]

Hey ! I don t now if any one will reply to my question, but I will ask it.
I have a german kezboard (logitech wireless k400r) but I couldn t find the correct layout on my Raspberry PI for this keyboard... Can you help me please ?

Thanks

[kmakila]

Its only recent versions of the image that have the raspi-config. If you bought a preloaded SD card (which typically have old images) it won't work.

Not the case. I've downloaded from here. But after a while I've managed to fix it.

Create this file

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sudo nano /home/pi/.xsessionrc

Insert inside the file (this example is for Portuguese layout):

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setxkbmap pt

Thanks pyter,  working now but it took me some time to figure out that it is se for sweden rather than sw /Sweden)  or  se (Sverige) and in OpenELEC se-fi-lat6

Save it and reboot it.

Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 66&t=17371

[qwertinsky]

How do I make my shift+3 make the # instead of that funny British dollar sign?

I can't even figure out how to make that symbol on my Windows machine?

The only choices I saw in raspi-setup was for UK keyboards and char sets?

[DougieLawson]

sudo raspi-config
Then choose the internationalisation option from the menu.
That option lets you set keyboard layout, locale and timezone.

[klricks]

How do I make my shift+3 make the # instead of that funny British dollar sign?

I can't even figure out how to make that symbol on my Windows machine?

The only choices I saw in raspi-setup was for UK keyboards and char sets?

The menu is not very intuitive. To get to country menu you first have to scroll to the bottom of the list and choose [Other]
Detailed instructions below:
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(For Raspbian OS)

sudo raspi-config

- Choose Internationalization menu
- Choose keyboard setup menu.
- If your exact keyboard is not on the list then choose one of the generic 101, 102 or 104 keyboards.

The following steps are Important! If need US then you must choose US. Don't leave it set to UK.......

- The default Keyboard Layout is [ English (UK) ]
- You may need to scroll down and select [Other] to get back to the country of origin menu
- From country of origin menu select [English (US) ]
- Then from Keyboard layout: menu, scroll to top of list and select - [ English (US) ]. Do not choose anything else unless you know exactly what you are doing!

- Complete the other menus then reboot.

[tomreedtoon]

I tried the process of going through and re-selecting the keyboard, but things are still wrong. The shift-2 should be an ampersand (@), but it's a double-quote sign ("). The keyboard I'm using is a garden-variety 105-key model, which I selected during setup. After finishing, I still get the same strange results from the keyboard. Do I have to reboot for the keyboard settings to apply?

Also, there are lots of variant keyboards listed in the US settings including Dvorak, and ones which sound like the Microsoft "International U.S. Keyboard" settings - which allow symbols and other type to be entered in with the ALT plus four keypad numbers. (Such as ALT-0169 is the copyright - © - symbol.) If anyone knows if this setting is available on the Pi, please explain it! A thousand thanks.

[klricks]

I tried the process of going through and re-selecting the keyboard, but things are still wrong. The shift-2 should be an ampersand (@), but it's a double-quote sign ("). The keyboard I'm using is a garden-variety 105-key model, which I selected during setup. After finishing, I still get the same strange results from the keyboard. Do I have to reboot for the keyboard settings to apply?

Also, there are lots of variant keyboards listed in the US settings including Dvorak, and ones which sound like the Microsoft "International U.S. Keyboard" settings - which allow symbols and other type to be entered in with the ALT plus four keypad numbers. (Such as ALT-0169 is the copyright - © - symbol.) If anyone knows if this setting is available on the Pi, please explain it! A thousand thanks.

As already mentioned in previous post, reboot is required after keyboard setup change.
Don't know about the Alt key entering? Try it and see you would likely be the 1st one to do so. Don't choose Dvorak unless you learned to type on Dvorak keyboard!!!

[rjwhite]

I went through a lot of frustration trying to get the British Pound (£) changed to a hash (#) character on my keyboard and nothing worked. I ended up with a question mark, after repeatedly saying I wanted English US.

So, I fixed it by just changing the file /etc/default/keyboard to this:

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

and then rebooting.
Thanx to Tom McCurdy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1F-TxTPyiM

[Ginnychabada]

"go sudo (or call for him) - the SUPERUSER and write:"

can you explain this , what exactly is to be written according to this line ?

[gowfster]

Help for a real newbie.
I got a Pi, configured it for a 7" LCD, everything was working well.
Decided I didn't like the time being UK time and I'm in US, so found instructions how to "americanize" the pi settings.
Did this and time successfully fixed, but along the way there was a keyboard reconfiguration section. I truly believe that I selected American US and standard Logitech keyboard... but now the Pi sees the keyboard strokes a characters I've never seen before and I'm totally stuck.
Thought I could edit profile on my PC running Win10, but it doesn't recognize the SD format. I'm at a loss as to what to do at this point? The SD card was a noobs card that came with the Pi that I installed Raspian from.

I would appreciate any guidance, and please recognize if you start talking Linux and Pi talk, I probably won't understand.
Thanks in advance,