Re: Console Fonts and Languages

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 00:47 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
In case that plays any role i am trying to setup my Fedora Core 4
installation to display correctly Greek Charachters under Console
(under X everything is working great for as far as X Windows are
concerned) using a 2.6.15.4 kernel from kernel.org


Tim wrote:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"

Here you set your language to be English and you are selecting UTF
charachter set
( iocharset )

English, Australian variant.
UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set, to be precise; which
doesn't matter what language you're using it with. Unicode is meant to
cover them all.

SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

This is the line for the system font ( font to be used ) .

Yes.

#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"

Here you define that only English are supported on
both UTF and ISO ( UTF and iso8859-1 )

I'm not sure if anything is defined there, it's preceded by a hash mark,
and that usually means it's commented out. If it wasn't commented out,
I'd expect it to list various alternatives that are able to be used.

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

The standard 102 keys keyboard

KEYTABLE="us"

This is the keymap i was asking .

It's what I'd expect for anyone using the US-style, IBM QWERTY keyboard
layout.

The i18n file would appear to set the default, language, character
encoding, and font. NB: Some are as terse as that example, some have
many more lines.

ACKnowledged but mine looks pretty much the same .


/etc/sysconfig/i18n

LANG="el_GR"
SYSFONT="fixedgr"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:el_GR.UTF-8:el_GR:el"

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="gr"

I presume the keyboard file sets the keymap, it looks that way, but I
haven't tried changing things to see if it's actually used.

Well i have . Don't presume . It is actually the file that sets they keymap
thing . It's the KEYTABLE thing in the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

I'm not the one doing the experimenting... But I'd imagine that both
lines are important. PC keyboards aren't the only types around. I'd
expect you'd have to put something different in there if you were using
a Mac keyboard, for instance.


I have messed with settings and seen different languages (with their native
fonts) in the consoles, and that was just by changing settings (no
recompiling needed).

Well untill now i was unsuccessfull . Tried with various fonts with the
above settings but i have failled .

I'm not sure if you're saying you've now been successful, or not. Those
two sentences contradict each other.

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