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[673b0d8] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[bdea25ce] | 7 |
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[81fd230] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
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[bdea25ce] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
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| 10 |
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[e747759] | 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>kbd</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&kbd-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&kbd-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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[bdea25ce] | 17 | <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
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| 20 | <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
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| 21 | </indexterm>
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[5df2845] | 22 |
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[bdea25ce] | 23 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 24 | <title/>
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[403a610] | 25 |
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| 26 | <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard utilities.</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <segmentedlist>
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| 29 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 30 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <seglistitem>
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[e4a5635] | 33 | <seg>&kbd-ch6-sbu;</seg>
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| 34 | <seg>&kbd-ch6-du;</seg>
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[403a610] | 35 | </seglistitem>
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| 36 | </segmentedlist>
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| 37 |
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[bdea25ce] | 38 | </sect2>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 41 | <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>The behaviour of the Backspace and Delete keys is not consistent
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| 44 | across the keymaps in the Kbd package. The following patch fixes this
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| 45 | issue for i386 keymaps:</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 46 |
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[0445a3d] | 47 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-backspace-patch;</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 48 |
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[bdea25ce] | 49 | <para>After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127,
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| 50 | and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 51 |
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[bdea25ce] | 52 | <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 53 |
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[0445a3d] | 54 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen>
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[b540268] | 55 |
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| 56 | <variablelist>
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| 57 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <varlistentry>
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| 60 | <term><parameter>--datadir=/lib/kbd</parameter></term>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <para>This option puts keyboard layout data in a directory that will
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| 63 | always be on the root partition instead of the default <filename
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| 64 | class="directory">/usr/share/kbd</filename>.</para>
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| 65 | </listitem>
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| 66 | </varlistentry>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | </variablelist>
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[73aedd1d] | 69 |
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[bdea25ce] | 70 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 71 |
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[0445a3d] | 72 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 73 |
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[bdea25ce] | 74 | <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
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[0be3d41] | 75 |
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[bdea25ce] | 76 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 77 |
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[0445a3d] | 78 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 79 |
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[bdea25ce] | 80 | <note>
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| 81 | <para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
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[b540268] | 82 | provide a useful keymap where the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes
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| 83 | the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of
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| 84 | such languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 85 | </note>
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| 86 |
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[b540268] | 87 | <para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on
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| 88 | <command>kbd_mode</command>, <command>openvt</command>, and
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| 89 | <command>setfont</command>. As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
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| 90 | may not be available during the early stages of booting, those binaries
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| 91 | need to be on the root partition:</para>
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| 92 |
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[0445a3d] | 93 | <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/{kbd_mode,openvt,setfont} /bin</userinput></screen>
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[b540268] | 94 |
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[bdea25ce] | 95 | </sect2>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
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| 98 | <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <segmentedlist>
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| 101 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <seglistitem>
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[8f4b4bf] | 104 | <seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, kbd_mode,
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| 105 | kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap,
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[bdea25ce] | 106 | mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to
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| 107 | psfxtable), psfstriptable (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons,
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[8f4b4bf] | 108 | setfont, setkeycodes, setleds, setmetamode,
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[bdea25ce] | 109 | showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop</seg>
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| 110 | </seglistitem>
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| 111 | </segmentedlist>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <variablelist>
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| 114 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 115 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 116 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <varlistentry id="chvt">
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| 119 | <term><command>chvt</command></term>
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| 120 | <listitem>
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| 121 | <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
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| 122 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
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| 123 | <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
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| 124 | </indexterm>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </varlistentry>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
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| 129 | <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
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| 130 | <listitem>
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| 131 | <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
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| 132 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
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| 133 | <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
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| 134 | </indexterm>
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| 135 | </listitem>
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| 136 | </varlistentry>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
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| 139 | <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
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| 140 | <listitem>
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| 141 | <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
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| 143 | <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
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| 144 | </indexterm>
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| 145 | </listitem>
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| 146 | </varlistentry>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
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| 149 | <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
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| 150 | <listitem>
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| 151 | <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
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| 152 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
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| 153 | <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
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| 154 | </indexterm>
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| 155 | </listitem>
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| 156 | </varlistentry>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
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| 159 | <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
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| 160 | <listitem>
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| 161 | <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
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| 162 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
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| 163 | <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
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| 164 | </indexterm>
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| 165 | </listitem>
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| 166 | </varlistentry>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
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| 169 | <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
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| 170 | <listitem>
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| 171 | <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
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| 172 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
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| 173 | <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
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| 174 | </indexterm>
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| 175 | </listitem>
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| 176 | </varlistentry>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
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| 179 | <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
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| 180 | <listitem>
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| 181 | <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
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| 182 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
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| 183 | <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
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| 184 | </indexterm>
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| 185 | </listitem>
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| 186 | </varlistentry>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
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| 189 | <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
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| 190 | <listitem>
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| 191 | <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 192 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
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| 193 | <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
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| 194 | </indexterm>
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| 195 | </listitem>
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| 196 | </varlistentry>
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| 197 |
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| 198 | <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
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| 199 | <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
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| 200 | <listitem>
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| 201 | <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 202 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
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| 203 | <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
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| 204 | </indexterm>
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| 205 | </listitem>
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| 206 | </varlistentry>
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| 207 |
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| 208 | <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
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| 209 | <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
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| 210 | <listitem>
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| 211 | <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
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| 212 | character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
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| 213 | by <command>setfont</command></para>
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| 214 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
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| 215 | <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
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| 216 | </indexterm>
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| 217 | </listitem>
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| 218 | </varlistentry>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <varlistentry id="openvt">
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| 221 | <term><command>openvt</command></term>
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| 222 | <listitem>
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| 223 | <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
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| 224 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
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| 225 | <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
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| 226 | </indexterm>
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| 227 | </listitem>
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| 228 | </varlistentry>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
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| 231 | <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
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| 232 | <listitem>
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| 233 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 234 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
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| 235 | <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
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| 236 | </indexterm>
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| 237 | </listitem>
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| 238 | </varlistentry>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
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| 241 | <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
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| 242 | <listitem>
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| 243 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 244 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
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| 245 | <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
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| 246 | </indexterm>
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| 247 | </listitem>
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| 248 | </varlistentry>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
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| 251 | <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
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| 252 | <listitem>
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| 253 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 254 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
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| 255 | <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
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| 256 | </indexterm>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 | </varlistentry>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
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| 261 | <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
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| 262 | <listitem>
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| 263 | <para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
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| 264 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
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| 265 | <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
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| 266 | </indexterm>
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| 267 | </listitem>
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| 268 | </varlistentry>
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| 269 |
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| 270 | <varlistentry id="resizecons">
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| 271 | <term><command>resizecons</command></term>
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| 272 | <listitem>
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| 273 | <para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
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| 274 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons">
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| 275 | <primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary>
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| 276 | </indexterm>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 | </varlistentry>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <varlistentry id="setfont">
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| 281 | <term><command>setfont</command></term>
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| 282 | <listitem>
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| 283 | <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
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| 284 | Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
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| 285 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
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| 286 | <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
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| 287 | </indexterm>
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| 288 | </listitem>
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| 289 | </varlistentry>
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| 290 |
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| 291 | <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
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| 292 | <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
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| 293 | <listitem>
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| 294 | <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
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| 295 | useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
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| 296 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
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| 297 | <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
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| 298 | </indexterm>
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| 299 | </listitem>
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| 300 | </varlistentry>
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| 301 |
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| 302 | <varlistentry id="setleds">
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| 303 | <term><command>setleds</command></term>
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| 304 | <listitem>
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| 305 | <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
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| 306 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
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| 307 | <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
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| 308 | </indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
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| 313 | <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
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| 314 | <listitem>
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| 315 | <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
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| 316 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
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| 317 | <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
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| 318 | </indexterm>
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| 319 | </listitem>
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| 320 | </varlistentry>
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| 321 |
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| 322 | <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
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| 323 | <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
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| 324 | <listitem>
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| 325 | <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
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| 326 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
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| 327 | <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
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| 328 | </indexterm>
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| 329 | </listitem>
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| 330 | </varlistentry>
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| 331 |
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| 332 | <varlistentry id="showkey">
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| 333 | <term><command>showkey</command></term>
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| 334 | <listitem>
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| 335 | <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
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| 336 | pressed on the keyboard</para>
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| 337 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
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| 338 | <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
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| 339 | </indexterm>
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| 340 | </listitem>
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| 341 | </varlistentry>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
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| 344 | <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
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| 345 | <listitem>
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| 346 | <para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Don't use this
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| 347 | program unless your keymap file is in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. For
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| 348 | other encodings, this utility produces incorrect results.</para>
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| 349 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
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| 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </listitem>
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| 353 | </varlistentry>
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| 354 |
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| 355 | <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
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| 356 | <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
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| 357 | <listitem>
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| 358 | <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
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| 359 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
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| 360 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
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| 361 | </indexterm>
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| 362 | </listitem>
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| 363 | </varlistentry>
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| 364 |
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| 365 | </variablelist>
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| 366 |
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| 367 | </sect2>
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[673b0d8] | 368 |
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| 369 | </sect1>
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