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sturaipo
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 Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject: Unicode characters in console and konsole |
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Hi everyone.
I'm experiencing a problem with unicode support and I don't know where to find the solution.
My box is an Athlon X2 5000+ running 64bit gentoo.
I tried to enable unicode support for all the system, but it's not working: in firefox and all other X application I can use multibyte character such as 'è' or 'ò' without any problem, but when I am in console (textual enviroment, not X) or I'm using konsole in kde 4.2 I have no support for this charcters.
If I try to digit a 'è' char in konsole I get
in textual enviroment the 'è' char is displaied correctly, but if I try to delete it, I can delete also the # char in the prompt.
I post some relevant configuration files:
/etc/rc.conf
| Quote: | # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console.
# If you set to yes, please make sure to set a UNICODE aware CONSOLEFONT and
# KEYMAP in the /etc/conf.d/consolefont and /etc/conf.d/keymaps config files.
UNICODE="yes"
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/etc/conf.d/
| Quote: | # Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.
KEYMAP="it"
# Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap? Most x86 users will
# say "yes" here. Note that non-x86 users should leave it as "no".
SET_WINDOWKEYS="no"
# The maps to load for extended keyboards. Most users will leave this as is.
EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=""
#EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace keypad euro"
# Tell dumpkeys(1) to interpret character action codes to be
# from the specified character set.
# This only matters if you set UNICODE="yes" in /etc/rc.conf.
# For a list of valid sets, run `dumpkeys --help`
DUMPKEYS_CHARSET=""
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/etc/conf.d/consolefont
| Quote: | # /etc/conf.d/consolefont
# CONSOLEFONT specifies the default font that you'd like Linux to use on the
# console. You can find a good selection of fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts;
# you shouldn't specify the trailing ".psf.gz", just the font name below.
# To use the default console font, comment out the CONSOLEFONT setting below.
# This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/consolefont script (NOTE: if you do
# not want to use it, run "rc-update del consolefont" as root).
CONSOLEFONT="default8x16"
# CONSOLETRANSLATION is the charset map file to use. Leave commented to use
# the default one. Have a look in /usr/share/consoletrans for a selection of
# map files you can use.
#CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni"
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/etc/env.d/02locale
| Quote: | LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8"
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Everything looks correct to me. Can someone suggest wherelse can I look?
Thanks in advice for your help!
Sturaipo |
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Nerevar
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you tried "lat9w-08" or "lat9w-16" for your CONSOLEFONT font? You'll have to restart the consolefont init script after making the change. |
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sturaipo
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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I've just tried, but this doesn't solve anything.  |
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sturaipo
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| Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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I have already read this guide.
As far as I can see everything should be ok.
I have enabled by default unicode and nls use flags and no package has been emerged without these use flags.
Moreover if I try to run the unicode init script I completely loose the non-ascii character in textual console (they don't even be visualized). |
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luispa
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Location: España
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Hi sturaipo, please check my config, it's working everywhere: X apps, Gnome terminal, Konsole, even textual console. But it took me a while  , in particular I found a difference when I created 02locale and when I started using UTF-8 instead of UTF8, suddenly text console and gnome-terminal started to work. Still having an issue with emacs... read below.
/etc/env.d/02locale
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LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8"
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/etc/rc.conf
| Code: | UNICODE="yes"
CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"
EDITOR="/bin/nano"
XSESSION="Gnome"
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/etc/conf.d/keymaps
| Code: | KEYMAP="-u es"
SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes"
EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace euro2"
DUMPKEYS_CHARSET=""
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/etc/conf.d/consolefont
| Code: | CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"
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And... I have the following running on my "luis" user, since long ago and I have NOT removed (in theory with the 02locale it's not necessary). I'll test to remove it to do some testing:
/home/luis/.bashrc
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source ~/.bashrc.environment-utf8
LESSCHARSET=utf-8
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/home/luis/.bashrc.environment-utf8
| Code: | export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8
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Also, since long ago this is the locale.gen that I'm using. It's probably wrong having too much locales. I'll take a look at this one with more time...
# confcat /etc/locale.gen
| Code: | en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
es_ES ISO-8859-1
es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15
es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8
es_ES.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
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However, NOT EVERYTHING works as I would like . I'm an emacs user and I'm frustated with UTF-8 support, so upgraded to emacs-cvs (23.0.91.1) where it's expected to be much more unicode compliant, but havent had luck (still investigating).
Take a look at this tests, very interesting. To finish the "cat" I use the auto-complete feature of the bash.
From Xorg using Konsole and bash. WORKS!
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bolica prog $ echo "áéíóúñÑ" > konsole-echo-áéíóú.txt
bolica prog $ cat konsole-echo-áéíóú.txt
áéíóúñÑ
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From Xorg using Konsole and emacs. FAILS!
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bolica prog $ emacs -nw konsole-áéíóú.txt (While typing inside emacs, characters appear correctly)
bolica prog $ cat konsole-�����.txt
�������.txt
bolica prog $
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From Xorg using Gnome-terminal and bash. WORKS!
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bolica prog $ echo "áéíóúñÑ" > gnome-echo-áéíóú.txt
bolica prog $ cat gnome-echo-áéíóú.txt
áéíóúñÑ
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From Xorg using Gnome-terminal and emacs. FAILS!
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bolica prog $ emacs -nw gnome-terminal-áéíóú.txt (While typing inside emacs, characters appear correctly)
bolica prog $ cat gnome-terminal-�����.txt
����
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From textual console and bash. WORKS!.
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bolica ~ # echo "áéíóú" > text-console-echo-áéíóú.txt
bolica ~ # cat text-console-echo-áéíóú.txt
áéíóú
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From textual console and emacs. FAILS PARTIALLY.
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bolica ~ # emacs -nw text-console-emacs-áéíóú.txt (While typing inside emacs, characters appear incorrectly, anyway I save the file)
bolica ~ # cat text-console-emacs-?????.txt
áéíóúñÑ
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From remote MacOSX with Terminal.app vía SSH and bash. WORKS!
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bolica ~ # echo "áéíóú" > Terminal.app-echo-áéíóú.txt
bolica ~ # cat Terminal.app-echo-áéíóú.txt
áéíóú
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From remote MacOSX with Terminal.app vía SSH and emacs. FAILS PARTIALLY!
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bolica ~ # emacs -nw Terminal.app-emacs-áéíóú.txt (While typing inside emacs, characters appear incorrectly, anyway I save the file)
bolica ~ # cat Terminal.app-emacs-?????.txt
áéíóúñÑ
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Lessons learnt:
1) UTF-8 support is "application" dependant or even configuration dependant on each application.
One example: emacs <23.0 has bad unicode support.
Another example: Under gnome-terminal double check it's detecting utf-8 under its setting or it will never work.
2) Everything complicates when working through your LAN sharing files/disks...
One example: rsync needs to be utf-8 compliant...
Hope it helps,
Luis |
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