Solaris Internationalization Guide For Developers

Changing Between Keyboards on SPARC

Support for changing layouts in the Solaris product is achieved only by using the dip-switch settings under the keyboard. The keyboard layout is determined by the dip switches. A list of keyboard layouts and corresponding defined dip-switch settings is at /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map.

The following table Table 2-6 is for a type 4 keyboard .(1=switch up 0=switch down).

Table 2-6 Layouts for Type 4 Keyboards


Dip Switch in Hex	Keyboard	Setting in Binary
51	Hungary5.kt	110011
52	Poland5.kt	110100
53	Czech5.k	110101
54	Russia5.kt	110110
55	Latvia5.k	110111
56	Turkey5.kt	111000
57	Greece5.kt	111001
58	Lithuania5.kt	111011

Changing the layout from U.S./UK to Czech is done by changing the dip-switch settings to the setting defined in the file (the file defines the switches in hex. This needs to be converted into binary as it was shown in Table 2-6) and then re-booting.

Russian and Greek keyboard support can be toggled on and off using the SPARC Compose key (Ctrl+Shift+F1 on x86).