Displaying Russian Characters

trevlix · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

Hello,

I'm trying to get my Gentoo install to be able to view Russian characters. The primary language on the machine is English but I can't seem to get the characters to display (I only see ?'s). Is there a wiki entry somewhere to help? I can't seem to find one.

VinzC · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

Is it on (text) consoles or in X that you want russian characters to be displayed?
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trevlix · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

Text in consoles at least. For the most part, in other apps such as firefox the russian characters are displayed correctly.

VinzC · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

Then you need UTF-8 consoles and unicode-aware cyrillic console fonts. You have some in /usr/share/consolefonts/. All you need is setup /etc/conf.d/consolefont.
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