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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Console in UTF8 - can't get all character using keyboard Reply with quote

I follow Gentoo UTF guide + some tips for my local language, which is polish.
All things work, but console. I cant type characters specific to my language. These characters are typed by pressing right Alt and a letter. When I do this, there is no reaction. No characters is showed on the screen.
X are fine, VT are fine, even in console displaying local characters is OK (when i do "ls -l" I can see all local characters used in filenames). Just typing doesn't work. Where to search for solving this?

Some data:
/etc/conf.d/consolefont
consolefont="ter-216n"

/etc/conf.d/keymap
keymap="pl2"
windowkeys=yes
dumpkeys_charset="iso-8859-2"
fix_euro="NO"

locale:
LANG=pl_PL.utf8
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_TIME="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_PAPER="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_NAME="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.utf8"
LC_ALL=pl_PL.utf8

/etc/rc.conf
unicode="YES"

It's annoying becouse I can't work in console. DO you have any ideas what could be the reason of this ?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For UTF-8 in consoles I have set variable consolefont to ter-v16n, which is a font file that contains almost every glyph representation. I haven't anything in dumpkeys_charset. Also make sure you have the proper locales in /etc/locale.gen. Example:
Code:
...
pl_PL.utf8 UTF-8
pl_PL iso-8859-2
...

Run locale-gen afterwards. You can also create this file
/etc/env.d/02locale:
LANG=pl_PL.utf8

which will set system-wide UTF8 and polish language. Otherwise move that instraction into ~/.bashrc or ./bash_profile.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After some investigation it appears that there is a problem during startup. I mean - no errors is shown, but when I do
Code:

mkm-box# /etc/init.d/keymaps restart

everything is as it should be.
So the question is now: why? Is there a problem with startup order?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is the output of
Code:
rc-update | grep keymaps
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is starting at boot:
Code:
mkm-box ~ # rc-update |grep keymaps
              keymaps |                          boot

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