Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Brian wrote:
> On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as
> > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup?
>
> Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are
> you attempting to get accented characters? Also, please post the
> keyboard file from /etc/default.
the blobs are diamond shapes

I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that has 
them, because I can see them in X.

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
#XKBVARIANT=""
#XKBOPTIONS=""
XKBVARIANT="intl"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"