On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:06:12PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > Now I am trying to set this system up for UTF-8 > is the console setting the same or would it need to be changed if i set > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ? > This is what I'm using for British English:
KEYMAP="uk-utf" UNICODE="1" FONT="LatGrkCyr-8x16" LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15" I've no idea if the LEGACY_CHARSET does anything useful, but it doesn't do any harm :) I guess the only thing _required_ is UNICODE="1". After that, it depends on your font, your colourscheme (my fonts, at least the 8x16 versions, don't look nice if you use dark on a light background, they are designed for light on dark), and most importantly, what glyphs you want to be able to display. Also, your own ideas of how certain glyphs ought to appear [ e.g. 'g' could have an open loop or a curled tail ]. In my case, LatGrkCyr aims to display almost all latin, greek (not polytonic), cyrillic glyphs that a (west)-european might see. At the cost of removing bold colours to get 512 available glyphs, and using a framebuffer. For other people, the requirements will be different. FWIW, my keymap aims to let me approximate, with compose keys, the dead keys for accents, etc which are available in xorg (I can't use AltGr for the dead key, so I have to assign a Compose key, and then I use the symbol, letter so that I only have to remember one set of modifiers - e.g. ; for acute accent. Doesn't all work, but enough to be useful to me. Other people do things differently, e.g. my netbook with ubuntu is set for dead keys, and works painfully. If in doubt about fonts, take a look at ~/ken at lfs - as well as my fonts there is some example text to help identify what your fonts can and can't cover - that might also be useful when running xorg. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
