On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:15:48AM -0400, William Sherwin wrote: > Kfir Lavi wrote: > > In order to see hebrew fonts in xterm, you should run uxterm. > > This will set the local and then you will see your heberew chars when > > you write. > > OK, but what about in the Linux console itself, meaning in the tty? (One can > switch to a tty from X by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1. Most Linux machines have a > default of six ttys, so ALT+F1 through ALT+F6 will toggle between the ttys; > ALT+F7 would bring one back to X. The CTRL key is necessary to switch from, but > not to, X.) >
At least in debian, the kbd package 1.12 contains setfont. On the iglu page the command line seems to be setfont -m none -u none iso08.16 # or iso08.f16 loadunimap /usr/lib/kbd/unimaps/8859-8.a0-ff.uni Although there were also some other options there for debian, but that seems the way to go. Look at: http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/?_recurse=1&file=79 > I have seen hints for consolechars, but my "distribution", Linux From Scratch, > uses kbd-1.08, and I know that consolechars is much older than that. I also > know that it is possible to make this work, though I don't know how to do it... > > >> In addition, though I don't know if this is related or not, the > >> backspace key > >> produces a ^? instead of the needed CTRL+H (backspace) character, both > >> in the > >> console and in xterm, and when I run some programs, such as Adobe Acrobat > >> reader, I get the following error: > >> > >> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > > > > I think uxterm will solve this. > > I'll try it but, as a traditionalist who often uses the tty, I'd like to get > that working, too... > > Thanks, > William > > ================================================================= > 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] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= 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]
