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From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
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Subject: Greek support for syscons
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Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but the i18n mailing
list seems dead for more than six months. Redirections are of course welcome.

I understand that there is no support for greek users in syscons (fonts,
keyboard mappings, etc.). The same holds for the locale functions, since
I can't find el_GR.ISO_8859-7 in /usr/share/locale. Now, I would like to
contribute some work in that direction, but I can't find any pointers. I 
have seen similar work in the linux camp that uses the localedef compiler
and locale tool from glibc. Since we don't have any of these, what tools
shall I use and what is the input format they expect? In the directory
/usr/src/share/colldef I find the en_DK.example file. Now I have the
necessary modifications for el_GR, but where do I apply them? 
Is there some sort of FAQ for these things?

Regards,

-past


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