Keyboard Layout on console with systemd (UK International)

I have a UK keyboard and I'm trying to get "dead keys" working on console with a pure systemd instalation without sucess...
The reason is that I need characters like: áãàõéò and so on...
On X it works great with the following code on "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf"
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection
but I'm not finding a way to make it work on console with systemd, searching for documentation on google didn't help me either.
Here my "/etc/vconsole.conf" file right now:
KEYMAP=uk
FONT=lat9w-16
FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni

@oupsemma thanks, maybe I wasn't clear cause my english sometimes fails but the issue I'm describing is console (terminal) related only (ctrl+alt+F1...6). When using a terminal like xterm / yakuake on X (KDE here) it works perfectly. Setxkbmap sets keyboard setup for X and it's working great already.
@mijenix thanks for all the details, but I think the above applies to xmodmap too (X related)
I'll try just to keep some distance from terminal (virtual console) from now on guys. I can use xterm anyway Thanks for all replies, I just can't think on any other distro community that's rocks like archlinux.

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