Author: dj
Date: 2008-10-23 17:12:34 -0600 (Thu, 23 Oct 2008)
New Revision: 8697
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
Log:
Checked in Alexander Patrakov's changes for the console page, and related
bootscripts update.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2008-10-23 05:14:25 UTC (rev 8696)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2008-10-23 23:12:34 UTC (rev 8697)
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@
<para>2008-10-23</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscritps-20081023 to account for
+ changes in the console page.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[dj] - Updated text in console page to match current situation
+ regarding linux kernel changes. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for
+ the text and explanations.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[dj] - Updated Man-DB instructions and text covering manual
pages and related i18n issues.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml 2008-10-23 05:14:25 UTC (rev 8696)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml 2008-10-23 23:12:34 UTC (rev 8697)
@@ -84,11 +84,14 @@
name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character
map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font
together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map
- (as it is appropriate in the USA), <!-- because of the copyright sign
-->
+ (as it is appropriate in the USA),
+ <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>.
- If this variable is not set, the bootscript will not run the
- <command>setfont</command> program, and the default VGA font will be
- used together with the default application character map.</para>
+ In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for
+ conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus
+ the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the
+ composed key codes in the keymap.</para>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -183,17 +186,17 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>There is no pre-made UTF-8 Russian keymap, therefore it has to be
- produced by converting the existing KOI8-R keymap as illustrated
- below:</para>
+ <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from
+ ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
UNICODE="1"
-KEYMAP="ru-ms"
-LEGACY_CHARSET="koi8-r"
-FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
+KEYMAP="de-latin1"
+KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
+LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
+FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
@@ -204,14 +207,16 @@
character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced
by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press
Ctrl+. A E to get Æ</quote> in the default keymap).
- Linux-&linux-version; in UTF-8 keyboard mode assumes that accented
- characters produced via dead keys or composing are in the Latin-1 range
- of Unicode, and it is impossible to change this assumption. Thus,
- accented characters needed for, e.g., the Czech language, can't be typed
- on Linux console in UTF-8 mode (but files containing these characters can
- be displayed correctly). The solution is either to avoid the use of
- UTF-8, or to install the X window system that doesn't have this
- limitation in its input handling.</para>
+ Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the
+ keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together
+ are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European
+ languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
+ characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
+ UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
+ sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>α</quote>.
+ The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
+ X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
+ handling.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent 2008-10-23 05:14:25 UTC (rev 8696)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent 2008-10-23 23:12:34 UTC (rev 8697)
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
<!ENTITY less-ch6-du "2.8 MB">
<!ENTITY less-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-version "20080522"> <!-- Scripts
depend on this format -->
+<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-version "20081023"> <!-- Scripts
depend on this format -->
<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-size "BOOTSCRIPTS-SIZE KB"> <!-- Updated in
Makefile -->
<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-url
"&downloads-root;lfs-bootscripts-&lfs-bootscripts-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-md5 "BOOTSCRIPTS-MD5SUM"> <!-- Updated in
Makefile -->
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