On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > My system is amd64 r209195. > > > > I was wondering if the user localisation > > section of the handbook is a bit out of date: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > > > The handbook suggests using cons25r, whereas > > the default console type in /etc/ttys is now xterm. > > And keeping cons25r together with relevant fonts, > > screenmap and keymap in /etc/rc.conf doesn't seem > > to work anymore. > > > > Also, the latest I can find on UTF8 in FreeBSD > > is this thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009349.html > > > > I tried to follow the advice given in this thread, > > namely I've rebuilt the kernel with TEKEN_UTF8 > > (it seems the other option mentioned, TEKEN_XTERM, is no > > longer valid), and set LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 > > in my shell. This didn't seem to have any effect. > > Even though UTF-8 support for the console is closer than it used to be, > it's still not useful in practice, since syscons won't display it. I > guess if you want to get Russian working on HEAD, you should do the > following: > > - Don't set TEKEN_* in your kernel configuration file. > - Just use the xterm terminal type in /etc/ttys. > - Set LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.{CP1251,CP866,ISO8859-5,KOI8-R}. > - Load a font for Syscons which uses the same character as the one you > chose above. > > So this means 8-bit character sets is the best thing we can do right > now. Yes, this works fine. I guess TEKEN_* in the kernel broke it. However, russian in xterm is still not working. This is probably my misconfiguration.. many thanks for your help anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423Received on Wed Jun 16 2010 - 14:30:37 UTC
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