* Set the console font, the keymap, and Unicode/ASCII mode.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=8542

system/options.nix

@@ -868,4 +868,26 @@
   }
 
 
+  {
+    name = ["i18n" "consoleFont"];
+    default = "lat9w-16";
+    example = "LatArCyrHeb-16";
+    description = "
+      The font used for the virtual consoles.  Leave empty to use
+      whatever the <command>setfont</command> program considers the
+      default font.
+    ";
+  }
+
+
+  {
+    name = ["i18n" "consoleKeyMap"];
+    default = "us";
+    example = "fr";
+    description = "
+      The keyboard mapping table for the virtual consoles.
+    ";
+  }
+
+
 ]

upstart-jobs/default.nix

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ let
   optional = option: service:
     if config.get option then [(makeJob service)] else [];
 
+  requiredTTYs =
+    (config.get ["services" "mingetty" "ttys"])
+    ++ [10] /* !!! sync with syslog.conf */ ;
+
 in
 
 import ../upstart-jobs/gather.nix {
@@ -86,6 +90,15 @@ import ../upstart-jobs/gather.nix {
       inherit nssModulesPath;
     })
 
+    # Console font and keyboard maps.
+    (import ../upstart-jobs/kbd.nix {
+      inherit (pkgs) glibc kbd gzip;
+      ttyNumbers = requiredTTYs;
+      defaultLocale = config.get ["i18n" "defaultLocale"];
+      consoleFont = config.get ["i18n" "consoleFont"];
+      consoleKeyMap = config.get ["i18n" "consoleKeyMap"];
+    })
+
     # Handles the maintenance/stalled event (single-user shell).
     (import ../upstart-jobs/maintenance-shell.nix {
       inherit (pkgs) bash;
@@ -193,10 +206,6 @@ import ../upstart-jobs/gather.nix {
             
           overridenTTYs = map (x: x.tty) specificThemes;
 
-          requiredTTYs =
-            (config.get ["services" "mingetty" "ttys"])
-            ++ [10] /* !!! sync with syslog.conf */ ;
-
           # Use the default theme for all the mingetty ttys and for the
           # syslog tty, except those for which a specific theme is
           # specified.

upstart-jobs/kbd.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+{glibc, kbd, gzip, ttyNumbers, defaultLocale, consoleFont, consoleKeyMap}:
+
+let
+
+  ttys = map (nr: "/dev/tty" + toString nr) ttyNumbers;
+
+in
+
+{
+  name = "kbd";
+
+  extraPath = [
+    kbd
+  ];
+  
+  job = "
+    description \"Keyboard / console initialisation\"
+
+    start on udev
+
+    script
+
+      export LANG=${defaultLocale}
+      export PATH=${gzip}/bin:$PATH # Needed by setfont
+
+      set +e # continue in case of errors
+
+      
+      # Enable or disable UTF-8 mode.  This is based on
+      # unicode_{start,stop}.
+      echo 'Enabling or disabling Unicode mode...'
+
+      charMap=$(${glibc}/bin/locale charmap)
+
+      if test \"$charMap\" = UTF-8; then
+
+        for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
+
+          # Tell the console output driver that the bytes arriving are
+          # UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences. 
+          echo -n -e '\\033%G' > $tty
+
+        done
+
+        # Set the keyboard driver in UTF-8 mode.
+        ${kbd}/bin/kbd_mode -u
+
+      else
+
+        for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
+
+          # Tell the console output driver that the bytes arriving are
+          # UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences. 
+          echo -n -e '\\033%@' > $tty
+
+        done
+
+        # Set the keyboard driver in ASCII (or any 8-bit character
+        # set) mode.
+        ${kbd}/bin/kbd_mode -a
+
+      fi
+
+
+      # Set the console font.
+      for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
+        ${kbd}/bin/setfont -C $tty ${consoleFont}
+      done
+
+
+      # Set the keymap.
+      ${kbd}/bin/loadkeys '${consoleKeyMap}'
+
+
+    end script
+  ";
+  
+}