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Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts



On 09/09/2007 01:33 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote:
Mumia, thanks a lot for taking your time.

"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> writes:

On 09/08/2007 10:49 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote:
"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> writes:

I don't know exactly the function of APP_CHARSET_MAP in
/etc/console-tools/config, but you could try setting it for the
VC's in questions, e.g.

APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc8=iso05

Iso05 may be wrong for your system. Use what you think is most appropriate.
Where can I find out what other possibilities I have, and what they mean?
dpkg -L console-tools | grep man

That's quite a lot to study, and not so easy to understand.
I'm not through yet...


"Man 4 console" looks like a good starting point. However, the values for APP_CHARSET_MAP don't seem to be documented in the console-tools package.

What could be appropriate on ordinary PC hardware for english and
german? How could I find out what consoles 1-6 use (which seems
right)?

Try iso01 through iso06.

Noone of them gave me german umlauts on consoles 8 through 12 (like I
do have them on console 1 through 6).


BTW: I have no idea which program uses /etc/console-tools/config and
where it is called in the boot process and under which name.

It looks like it's /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh.

Yes I had seen this one, but I thought it would only be called in
single user mode. There is no such link in the other /etc/rcS.n
directories. Probably I do not understand that right.


"S" is the startup runlevel; when the machine boots, it starts in "S" before going to the destination runlevel, e.g. "2".

It might also be a good idea to do "dpkg-reconfigure locales"; that
might set up your consoles for your default locale.

Tried that, no change.

How do you attempt to enter German umlauts? How would you enter "ö" at
the console?

I press the key right of 'l' which gives me 'ö' on consoles 1 through 6
but garbage on 8-12.

Robert Epprecht



I don't think I have too many more ideas--except to try random values for iso## and hope that the machine doesn't crash.



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