On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:23:16PM +0330, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > - What is the cleanest possible way to get the console (all of the > > virtual consoles, not just the bootup one) into UTF-8 mode as early as > > possible? If it matters, I'm using the Rage 128 framebuffer driver on > > x86 Debian sid. > > Maybe putting a ESC%G sequence in your /etc/issue (?).
This does almost everything necessary; however, it does not do the equivalent of 'kbd_mode -u', which sets the keyboard to UTF-8 mode. I could write a wrapper around getty that I call from /etc/inittab, but that seems ugly...I may end up doing that though. It might also be nice to get unicode going on from early in the bootup process. Should I put something in the rcS.d directory that sets everything up unicodely (kbd_mode -u plus ESC%G) ? I wonder if that would work on all my consoles, or if I'd have to wrap getty as above. I could also just put something in the /etc/profile, which would satisfy me since I don't use tcsh.. I guess I was just asking what the best was. Thank you for your suggestion, though; it's a good one. > > - I remember hearing about a tool that takes a bdf or some other full > > font format and being able to extract any arbitrary set of 512 > > characters from it and put that set into a console font. Can any of > > you point me to it? It would be nice to make various Unicode console > > fonts tailored to my tastes. > > It comes with Unicode VGA font, by Dmitry Bolkhovityanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > avalable at http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/ Thanks for the pointer. I'll investigate it when I get a chance. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
