Hi Roberto,
Thank you for the useful information.
For text console: by my understanding it's impossible to have
filenames (or mysql tables, for example) displayed correctly in more
than 2 languages. Am I right? Chosing the proper font and mapping I can
see, for example, latin and russian characters. And what if I also have
data to be displayed in armenian?
For xterm: using unicode fonts I can see data of any language.
But mc, which is (probably) using the same font, cannot display most
unicode characters them correctly.
Cheers,
Sergey
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:40:27 +0200
Roberto Braga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
> > I'm trying to make midnight commander to show filenames in unicode.
> > When I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (for example), I can see unicode
> > filenames in xterm or xfce Terminal, but mc doesn't show them
> > properly. Some characters are displayed, but some doesn't - just
> > squares or question marks.
> From were are you starting mc? From the xterm/xfce terminal or from
> the text console?
>
> If you start it from the text console the problem could be the font
> you are using.
>
> In /etc/rc.conf there is the following line
> CONSOLEFONT=......
> Set it according to your need, the available fonts are located in
> /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts.
> it should be something like
> CONSOLEFONT=lat1-16.psfu.gz
>
> Another parameter that could help is
> CONSOLEMAP=.....
> Normally consolemap are loaded automatically accordingly to the
> consolefont. Files are in /usr/share/kbd/unimaps in console map you
> should use a complete path, something like
> CONSOLEMAP=/usr/share/kbd/unimaps/8859-1.a0-ff.uni
>
>
> These 2 parameters are used with setfont command (man setfont for
> more details) as follow
>
> rc.sysinit:
> /usr/bin/setfont -m $CONSOLEMAP $CONSOLEFONT -C /dev/vc/${i}
>
> You can experiment the right combination using the following line (it
> reproduce the above setting)
>
> /usr/bin/setfont -m /usr/share/kbd/unimaps/8859-1.a0-ff.uni
> lat1-16.psfu.gz -C /dev/vc/1
>
> It set the font for the console 1 (-C /dev/vc/1), actually I think
> the change take place immediately but to be sure log out from the
> console and then login again.
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