pcmapkeys — Set Keyboard Extended Map and Scan Code Translation for the PC Console in Text Mode
Synopsis
/bin/pcmapkeys [-f mapfile | -n | -g | -d | -e] Description
The pcmapkeys command enables you, in text mode, to activate character mapping on input and output and keyboard extended mapping on the PC console. The keyboard extended mapping consists of the support for the deadkey and compose key sequences.
Consistent Keyboard-Display Mapping
The original UNIX operating system was written to support the ASCII codeset. ASCII is one of many standards used to represent characters internally as certain numbers. ASCII typically supports 128 different characters, each represented by a single byte, of which the 8th bit is not used. Many UNIX system ...
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