Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > How does one go about choosing the correct keymaps and fonts for their > system? I've read over chapter07/console.html several times but still have a > couple of questions. > > What I'm trying to do is configure a system to have a UK keymap and have a > UTF-8 capable console. > > This is what i have at the moment to achieve the same objective :-
UNICODE="1" KEYMAP="uk" KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2 windowkeys" LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15" FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16" The 'euro2' thing still doesn't generate a Euro symbol, so that needs work. I also chose iso-8859-15 instead of iso-8859-1 in the hope of getting said Euro-symbol... Ken Moffat has composed a 'uk-utf8' keymap, but the download link doesn't seem to work - Ken, is there any chance of another attempt to make this available? > Similarly, for fonts, how do I determine which ones are UTF-8 capable and > what flags I need to pass to setfont, via the FONT variable, so that it will > display correctly? > > Thanks, > > Matt. > > As Alexander said, fonts with a 'psfu' suffix are supposed to be unicode-compatible. Hope that helps, taipan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
