Re: SuSe and Character Mappings (Graphical ASCII chars)
From: BearItAll (spam_at_rassler.co.uk)
Date: 12/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:46:05 +0000
Coenraad Loubser wrote:
> Could someone please shed some light on this for me once and for all.
>
> Since SuSe 6, SuSe is the only Linux distribution that NEVER displays the
> right characters on ANY terminals
>
> I am constantly having to stuggle with consolechars and consolefonts...
>
> I just installed SuSe 9.1, out of the box; Well, after the 1st reboot, it
> ran a config and crashed when it got to networking setup; and next reboot
> it
> went through to xdm login; I did run SuSeconfig...
>
> Anyway.
>
> In my man pages, wherever bold is supposed to be , i get a "a" with a ' on
> it;
> From putty on my windows maching, midnight commander's graphical
> characters are all screwed up apostophe a's and e's; rxvt shows funny
> characters....
>
> Aaaargh.
>
> With Mandrake everything is just perfect, always.
>
> But i Do like Suse and really would like to see it LOOK GOOD... in the
> terminal too....
>
> My questions:
> 1) How many different places are there to set the character set/map from
> 2) What should I use for just plain US/ASCII??!?
>
> Since SUSE 6 I've had this problem!!
> I suppose most people use KDE and dont care! I Do!!
>
> THANKS!
In the Konsole -> Settings -> Configure Konsole -> Session
Don't go feeling silly, who would of thought they would put it there?
(sorry, only joshing with you).
If I remember right the default for Suse was XFree 4.x, I can't remember if
it was or if I changed it.
Chances are you are looking for 'linux console'. You can save session types,
for example I have one for vt100.
However, you might prefer to jump into a term of the right type from the
command line. For that remember that you can specify the term with your ssh
just as you can with telnet. If you regularly flick between term types then
it is worth setting up a couple of aliases just for that.
Beware of odd keyboards, specially those with multi-function keys, like on
this very laptop. They often don't give the scan code you would expect. I
also know that one of those multi-do-it-all MS keyboards seems to have
abandoned the idea of common key code values altogether.
-- BearItAll Martian currently living on planet ZoggleBoggle Someone kept throwing bits of metal at us, When I find out who I'll have words with them.
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