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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:39:53 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Allow Ole <allow@darkserver.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/20864: hebrew support for syscons on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000828173950.B81950@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21_heb2.09.0008281117450.87422-100000@darkserver.dyndns.org>; from allow@darkserver.dyndns.org on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:25:00AM %2B0300
References:  <20000828003658.A76538@nagual.pp.ru> <Pine.BSF.4.21_heb2.09.0008281117450.87422-100000@darkserver.dyndns.org>

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:25:00AM +0300, Allow Ole wrote:
> compatible, anyway, mc was only an example, some other software, ncurses
> based, which are part of the original distribution, like vidfont, kbdmap,
> and even sysinstall, get screwed, because the line set appears in
> ISO-8859-1, doesn't appear in ISO-8859-8.

You need to write another termcap entry now for 8859-8 console instead of
modifying fonts. See 8859-1 and 8859-2 termcap entries for example.

> I'm not trying to convince you to include my font or something, just
> trying to give you a full picture, including the problems the original
> spec makes.

There is no problems, just incorrect termcap entry. You shouldn't use
standard console termcap entry for anything other then CP437.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://ache.pp.ru/


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