Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-03-27: > Hi > > I don't use the linux console much, so I didn't care much about the > following until now, but still: > > I have a redhat 7.3 workstation. I tried swtching it to unicode as much > as possible. > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n > LANG="he_IL.UTF-8" > #SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en" > SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-16" > This is a 512-characters font, using a little-known nifty feature of VGA (and EGA?): it can be configure to select one of two 256-character fonts according to each cell's high foreground bit. So you lose 16 foreground colors and must do with 8. In practice this should means that bold mode stops being interpretted - but I don't know how is it configured exactly.
I'd be surprised though if it continues for new output you create (try ls --color, emacs -> M-x list-colors-display, vim with any shell script :-] or manual tputs) - I believe it is only for what is *already on the screen*. There should be some incantation to translate the current screen contents but I never bothered to learn it. > However the console has a major problem: color (ascii) characters look > like some random cyrillic characters. This is even after I run unicode_start . > Try ``showcfont`` (or ``showfont``?) before and after the unicode_start/stop for insight. Check whether it also affects new output. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, whose 12x CD burner works at 24x with cdrecord in linux - sheer magic! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
