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init.d/keymaps

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+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
+# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
+
+description="Applies a keymap for the consoles."
+
+depend()
+{
+	need localmount termencoding
+	after bootmisc
+	keyword -openvz -prefix -uml -vserver -xenu -lxc
+}
+
+start()
+{
+	ttyn=${rc_tty_number:-${RC_TTY_NUMBER:-12}}
+	: ${unicode:=$UNICODE}
+	: ${keymap:=$KEYMAP}
+	: ${extended_keymaps:=$EXTENDED_KEYMAPS}
+	: ${windowkeys:=$SET_WINDOWSKEYS}
+	: ${fix_euro:=$FIX_EURO}
+	: ${dumpkeys_charset:=${DUMPKEYS_CHARSET}}
+
+	if [ -z "$keymap" ]; then
+		eerror "You need to setup keymap in /etc/conf.d/keymaps first"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	local ttydev=/dev/tty n=
+	[ -d /dev/vc ] && ttydev=/dev/vc/
+
+	# Force linux keycodes for PPC.
+	if [ -f /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes ]; then
+		echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes
+	fi
+
+	local wkeys= kmode="-a" msg="ASCII"
+	if yesno $unicode; then
+		kmode="-u"
+		msg="UTF-8"
+	fi
+	yesno $windowkeys && wkeys="windowkeys"
+
+	# Set terminal encoding to either ASCII or UNICODE.
+	# See utf-8(7) for more information.
+	ebegin "Setting keyboard mode [$msg]"
+	n=1
+	while [ $n -le $ttyn ]; do
+		kbd_mode $kmode -C $ttydev$n
+		: $(( n += 1 ))
+	done
+	eend 0
+
+	ebegin "Loading key mappings [$keymap]"
+	loadkeys -q $wkeys $keymap $extended_keymaps
+	eend $? "Error loading key mappings" || return $?
+
+	if yesno $fix_euro; then
+		ebegin "Fixing font for euro symbol"
+		# Fix some fonts displaying the Euro, #173528.
+		echo "altgr keycode 18 = U+20AC" | loadkeys -q -
+		eend $?
+	fi
+
+	# Save the keymapping for use immediately at boot
+	if checkpath -W "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"; then
+		mkdir -p "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console
+		dumpkeys >"$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/keymap
+	fi
+}