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International Language Environments Guide for Oracle® Solaris 11.4

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Updated: February 2022
 
 

Keyboard Layout on the Console

Although you will probably not need to do so often, you can change the keyboard layout in the console by using the nlsadm command with the get-console-keymap, list-console-keymap, and set-console-keymap subcommands. The Oracle Solaris console supports ASCII characters only. Non-ASCII characters might not be displayed properly depending on type of connection and keyboard layout used.

To view the current console keyboard layout setting:

$ nlsadm get-console-keymap
keymap=US-English

To list available values for the console keyboard layout setting:

$ nlsadm list-console-keymap
Arabic 
...

To set the console keyboard layout to Japanese:

# nlsadm set-console-keymap Japanese

Note - There are limited set of keyboard layouts available, because only ASCII characters are supported in an Oracle Solaris console environment.