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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: UTF-8 on the console... still haven't quite figured it out |
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I've spent a couple of days on this now, and I still don't have a fully working solution. Basically, what I am trying to do is to be able to view and input a few non-US-English Latin characters in both Xorg and the Linux console. I am a US English user but I have occasional need for other Western European characters (é, ö, etc.).
I couldn't get anything to display properly on the console without using UTF-8, so I following the Gentoo UTF-8 guide to convert to UTF-8. Here's what I did, in summary:
/etc/env.d/02locale:
| Code: | | LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" |
kernel menuconfig:
| Code: | File Systems -->
Native Language Support -->
(utf8) Default NLS Option
<*> NLS UTF8 |
/etc/rc.conf:
/etc/conf.d/keymaps:
(left this one at the default value)
/etc/conf.d/consolefont:
(I chose this font since it has a unicode mapping)
| Code: | | CONSOLEFONT="LatArCyrHeb-16" |
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
| Code: | | Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" |
Results: Everything works perfectly in Xorg (using rxvt-unicode), including the use of the right alt modifier key to input accented characters, etc. The console, however, is still only half-working.
It's better now that I set CONSOLEFONT to LatArCyrHeb-16 (I can now see these characters properly), but I can't input anything. For a while I was using LeftAlt+[decimal #] to input a certain character, but that only sometimes works with only a few characters. Furthermore, when I do successfully input a certain character (é, for example), it doesn't seem to "match up" to the real UTF-8 character (giving me errors when I try to issue commands on files).
Am I missing something? |
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