From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 15:41:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Stalker.Alfacom.net (Stalker.Alfacom.net [62.244.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76EF37BBAC for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vkushnir@Alfacom.net) Received: from kushnir1.kiev.ua (dup-115.alfacom.net [62.244.36.115]) by Stalker.Alfacom.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA28725; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:41:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (volodya@localhost) by kushnir1.kiev.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA25469; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:40:59 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from volodya@kushnir1.kiev.ua) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:40:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Vladimir Kushnir To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3-language support - howto? In-Reply-To: <8c7h43$10ui$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First off, thank you for very good explanation & advice. On 2 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > > > Is there any way to enable triple-language (console) support under > > FreeBSD? In my case, English+Russian+Ukrainean. > > I'm not sure what "triple-language support" translates to in > technical terms. I assume what you need is (1) a font that has the > characters required for all three languages and (2) ditto a keymap. Fortunately, I found all of those on an FTP site (, most probably lots of other sites). [...] > I notice that we don't seem to have any KOI8-U or ISO 8859-5 console > fonts. Hmm. KOI8-U you could probably modify yourself from KOI8-R > with a font editor such as xmbdfed. Or you could pick up appropriate > Linux console fonts. There's some simple format conversion necessary, > I think, but the font data itself is compatible (VGA-style). At the site I mentioned there's one, with both Russian and Ucrainean characters. Actually, this is a complete FreeBSD package, and I wonder why noboby committed it in package/port collection. > > There's a Ukrainian KOI8-U keymap which you might want to take as > a starting point, even if you can't take it as it is. Had to tweak it a bit for more convenience, but generally ot works. > > > P.S. OT: would some kind soul send me codes (or point to them) for > > Ukrainean letters in other (DOS, M$-Win) encodings? > > That sounds like a case for Roman Czyborra's character set soup > . If he doesn't list anything there, > send him e-mail and I'm sure he'll be able to point you to a source. > Thanks again, Regards, Vladimir -- ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | vkushnir@Alfacom.net | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message