diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index ec64d33a3..0b28ba95b 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
+need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
+text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to
 /etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if"
 statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml
index c61bfc7db..3db1f955a 100644
--- a/chapter07/console.xml
+++ b/chapter07/console.xml
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@
 
 <para>In this section we will configure the <command>console</command>
 initscript that sets up the keyboard
-map and the console font. If you are a native English speaker so that you
-don't need to use any non-ASCII characters, and your keyboard is a US one,
-skip this section. Without the configuration file,
+map and the console font. If you
+don't need to use any non-ASCII characters
+(British pound and Euro character are not ASCII),
+and your keyboard is a US one, you can skip this section.
+Without the configuration file,
 the <command>console</command> initscript will do nothing.</para>
 
 <para>The <command>console</command> script uses the
@@ -50,8 +52,14 @@ KEYMAP="es euro"
 FONT="lat9-16 -u iso01"
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the console initscript
-will not run the corresponding program.</para>
+<note><para>The FONT line above is correct only for the ISO-8859-15
+character set. If you prefer ISO-8859-1 and therefore use a pound sign
+instead of Euro, the correct FONT line is:</para>
+<screen><userinput>FONT="lat1-16"</userinput></screen></note>
+
+<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the
+<command>console</command> initscript will not run the corresponding
+program.</para>
 
 <para>In some keymaps, the Backspace and Delete keys send characters
 different form ones in the default keymap built into the kernel.
@@ -78,15 +86,16 @@ altgr   control alt keycode 111 = Boot
 <para>Then tell the <command>console</command> script to load this snippet
 after the main keymap:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;EOF</userinput>
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;"EOF"</userinput>
 KEYMAP_CORRECTION="/etc/kbd/bs-sends-del"
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>If back in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> you decided to go
-compile your keymap directly into the kernel (later on in <xref
-linkend="chapter-bootable"/>), then strictly speaking you don't need to run the
-loadkeys program, since the kernel will set up the keymap for you,
-and thus you may omit the KEYMAP variable from the
+<para>If you decided to
+compile your keymap directly into the kernel later on in <xref
+linkend="chapter-bootable"/> instead of setting it every time from the
+<command>console</command> bootscript, then you don't need to run the
+<command>loadkeys</command> program. Since the kernel will set up the keymap,
+you can omit the KEYMAP variable from the
 <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename>
 configuration file. If you wish,
 you can still have it, this isn't going to hurt you. Keeping it could even