Re: How to setup the console to greek ?
Hi,
Have a look at
http://members.hellug.gr/djart/articles/grlinux/grlinux-4.html
Specifically, you need to execute
$ echo -ne "\033(K\033)K" >/dev/tty
$ consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/iso07.f16.psf.gz
$ loadkeys gr
for Debian Linux, and you are done.
It implies you use the system encoding ISO-8859-7. In addition, one can
add these commands to the system files so that you do not need to run
manually.
A rant about Unicode now.
Unfortunatelly, you cannot use Unicode while in console as you are
unable to write characters with accents by pressing a dead key
("composing"). For example, for Greek, you cannot type ";"+"a" to
generate ά when in Unicode mode. It's an issue that is being
investigated
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143014) and
affects any language that needs dead keys. You would be able to input
Unicode if you would patch your kernel and recompile. See bugzilla
report for more.
You can view documents in Unicode on the console, documents with several
scripts such as Latin (all western), Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew. The
Linux console can show around 512 characters simultanously when in
Unicode mode and allows "console unicode fonts" where you can choose
which character sets you feel like using (package "kbd"). This
functionality is default to other distros, such as Fedora.
simos
Στις 29/Δεκ/2004, ημέρα Τετάρτη και ώρα 20:56, ο/η Michelle Konzack
έγραψε:
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> Hello,
>
> sorry for writing in english (I speak german, french, turish, farsi
> and arabic too) but my oldest daughter is greek and I like to setup
> her console to greek.
>
> The Release is WOODY.
>
> Midnight Commander, cp and sisters have greek mo-files but nothing
> is working. The mo-file from mc is definitivly iso-8859-7 and I
> have already seen it in greek.
>
> I have in her
>
> ____( '/home/athina/.bash_profile' )__________________________________
> /
> | export LANG=el_GR
> | export LANGUAGE=el_GR
> | export LC_MESSAGES=el_GR
> |
> | echo "Lade Console Font..."
> | consolechars -v --font=grfixed
> | echo
> | echo "Lade Tastaturlayout..."
> | loadkeys -s gr-pc
> \______________________________________________________________________
>
> but it does not work.
>
> Please can anyone help me ?
> I need it urgently...
>
> Sorry for writing here, but there is no <debian-user-greek>
>
> Thanks
> Michelle
>
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