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Submitted by matsk (registered user) on Tue, 2008-06-10 09:25.

Here is instructions for localization of Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml

General Linux:  http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_change_the_keyboard_layout_in_text_mode_on_a_linux-based_operating_system

But this howto can be coocked down to:

To change temporary (until reboot) loadkeys sv-latin To change temporarily to swedish keyboard layout.

And to verify that the keyboard layout is correct use the command: showkey

Permanent setting (RHEL, CentOS and Fedora):
Edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and replace KEYTABLE="us" by KEYTABLE="sv-latin1"
save and reboot.

To find whitch keyboard layout maps that is available is in the map /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/... or /usr/share/keymaps/i386/..., depending on which distro is used.

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