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Hello Simos,
Thanks for the fast answer...
Am 2004-12-29 21:48:07, schrieb Simos Xenitellis:
>
> Hi,
> Have a look at
> http://members.hellug.gr/djart/articles/grlinux/grlinux-4.html
OK, I will check out.
> Specifically, you need to execute
>
> $ echo -ne "\033(K\033)K" >/dev/tty
> $ consolechars -f /usr/share/consolefonts/iso07.f16.psf.gz
> $ loadkeys gr
This give me a:
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/gr.kmap.gz
findfile(): timeout waiting for undead child(ren) ?
> for Debian Linux, and you are done.
> It implies you use the system encoding ISO-8859-7. In addition, one can
Right.
> add these commands to the system files so that you do not need to run
> manually.
I run it from .bash_profile because it is a multiuser/
multilanguage environement. - A killer under WOODY.
> A rant about Unicode now.
But 'mc' does not work with Unicode
> 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 ?? 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
I know... because I use "de-latin1"...
"de_de@euro" works fine but de_DE.utf8 drives me crazy.
> Unicode if you would patch your kernel and recompile. See bugzilla
> report for more.
Hm thats interesting.
Why it is not standard in the Kernel ?
> You can view documents in Unicode on the console, documents with several
> scripts such as Latin (all western), Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew. The
I was using "LatArCyrHeb" as font with Unicode and have tried to filter
in 'mutt' with "libfribidi" for Arabic... but it is the hell !!!
It lakes the shaping.
> 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.
Already tried and it was a thread on "debian-user-german".
There is nobody which can help with latin/arabic/farsi.
> simos
Greetings
Michelle
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