Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:28:52 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@RawFedDogs.net> To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Unicode Console? Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802201908150.9101@MrSmith.RawFedDogs.net>
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Fellow FreeBSD Fans,
I've been running FreeBSD on a web/mail server, which I only have remote=20
access to, for a while now. At home I've been running Linux since the=20
1.xx kernel days but am considering switching my desktop box to FreeBSD.
I never given much thought to my locale setting until recently. I'm about=
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to start participating in an online Spanish study group, via e-mail, and=20
might also be following along with an Old English study group. I'm an old=
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fashioned kinda user and prefer to do as much as I can via the text=20
console. I compose/read e-mail via Alpine. After some trial and error I=
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finally convinced my Linux box, currently running Arch Linux, to handle=20
all of the "special" characters I need via the console. In the end, it=20
amounted to:
1. Add "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" to /etc/locale.gen
2. run locale-gen
3. set LANG to en_US.UTF-8
4. Switch to a font that contains the symbols I need. I'm currently
using one of the Terminus console fonts. For some reason I had to
switch to a framebuffer console otherwise after executing
unicode_start the font was way too dim.
5. run unicode_start(added to my .cshrc file)
After the above I'm able to display various accented characters such as =E1=
,=20
=E9, =EC, =F6, =FB, =E7, etc. along with the Spanish =F1, inverted punctuat=
ion marks =A1,=20
=BF, Old English thorn(=FE), eth(=F0), ash(=E6), etc. Also, from reading m=
ail=20
from various mailing lists I've noticed that it also handles the Cyrillic=
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alphabet and part of the Greek alphabet.
From=20what I've seen of FreeBSD I'd expect it to have console capabilities=
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that are superior to those of Linux. But, I haven't managed to figure out=
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how to achieve similar functionality via the FreeBSD text consoles. I'm=20
currently testing FreeBSD(7.0-RC2) under VMware. Can anyone point me in=20
the right direction?
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!
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