Re: Display special characters (umlaut) on console

frank_at_terra.com.br
Date: 08/20/03 

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:25:11 -0300

In article <bhre99$acq$03$1@news.t-online.com>, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> frank@terra.com.br (<frank@terra.com.br>) wrote:
>
>> I installed Debian and now I my console doesn't display special
>> characters of other languages any more (accents, umlaute).
>>
>> I switched the keyboard to other layouts, but when I hit an umlaut
>> key, there appeared a wrong character or nothing or it beeped.
>>
>> I wrote a file with some of these characters in X Windows (where it
>> works), displayed it on a text console and strange (well, not the
>> expected) characters appeared.
>>
>> I tried various 'consolechars', but without success.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> Maybe you need to setup a matching font. Take a look at
>
> /etc/console-tools/config.

That is an interesting file, didn't know that. Well, what I did last
night is installing all the fonts I found on my Debian Woody CDs. The
installation program (dselect) configured something and all of a
sudden it worked. I don't remember what I was doing exactly because it
was 2:00 in the morning, but I think it has to do with that strange
'fonty' thing, which appearently is no program and has no manpage.

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