Re: Unicode Console?
Dominic Fandrey writes: It won't work for the console, but in a terminal emulator (I prefer rxvt-unicode, but uxterm should also work.) it works fine. My FreeBSD system uses UTF-8 and I never encountered problems because of this. Have I missed the announcement, or is it still the case the filesystem is not UTF compatible? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode Console?
Robert Huff wrote: Dominic Fandrey writes: It won't work for the console, but in a terminal emulator (I prefer rxvt-unicode, but uxterm should also work.) it works fine. My FreeBSD system uses UTF-8 and I never encountered problems because of this. Have I missed the announcement, or is it still the case the filesystem is not UTF compatible? Robert Huff UFS works fine with any kind of 8-Bit Encoding. UTF-8 is not an exception. I'm using this since 5.3, when I started using FreeBSD. # touch Français # touch 日本語 # ls Français日本語 # rm * # ls # ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unicode Console?
Fellow FreeBSD Fans, I've been running FreeBSD on a web/mail server, which I only have remote access to, for a while now. At home I've been running Linux since the 1.xx kernel days but am considering switching my desktop box to FreeBSD. I never given much thought to my locale setting until recently. I'm about to start participating in an online Spanish study group, via e-mail, and might also be following along with an Old English study group. I'm an old fashioned kinda user and prefer to do as much as I can via the text console. I compose/read e-mail via Alpine. After some trial and error I finally convinced my Linux box, currently running Arch Linux, to handle all of the special characters I need via the console. In the end, it amounted to: 1. Add en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen 2. run locale-gen 3. set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 4. Switch to a font that contains the symbols I need. I'm currently using one of the Terminus console fonts. For some reason I had to switch to a framebuffer console otherwise after executing unicode_start the font was way too dim. 5. run unicode_start(added to my .cshrc file) After the above I'm able to display various accented characters such as á, é, ì, ö, û, ç, etc. along with the Spanish ñ, inverted punctuation marks ¡, ¿, Old English thorn(þ), eth(ð), ash(æ), etc. Also, from reading mail from various mailing lists I've noticed that it also handles the Cyrillic alphabet and part of the Greek alphabet. From what I've seen of FreeBSD I'd expect it to have console capabilities that are superior to those of Linux. But, I haven't managed to figure out how to achieve similar functionality via the FreeBSD text consoles. I'm currently testing FreeBSD(7.0-RC2) under VMware. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode Console?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:28:52PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Fellow FreeBSD Fans, I've been running FreeBSD on a web/mail server, which I only have remote access to, for a while now. At home I've been running Linux since the 1.xx kernel days but am considering switching my desktop box to FreeBSD. I never given much thought to my locale setting until recently. I'm about to start participating in an online Spanish study group, via e-mail, and might also be following along with an Old English study group. I'm an old fashioned kinda user and prefer to do as much as I can via the text console. I compose/read e-mail via Alpine. After some trial and error I finally convinced my Linux box, currently running Arch Linux, to handle all of the special characters I need via the console. In the end, it amounted to: 1. Add en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen 2. run locale-gen 3. set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 4. Switch to a font that contains the symbols I need. I'm currently using one of the Terminus console fonts. For some reason I had to switch to a framebuffer console otherwise after executing unicode_start the font was way too dim. 5. run unicode_start(added to my .cshrc file) After the above I'm able to display various accented characters such as á, é, ì, ö, û, ç, etc. along with the Spanish ñ, inverted punctuation marks ¡, ¿, Old English thorn(þ), eth(ð), ash(æ), etc. Also, from reading mail from various mailing lists I've noticed that it also handles the Cyrillic alphabet and part of the Greek alphabet. From what I've seen of FreeBSD I'd expect it to have console capabilities that are superior to those of Linux. But, I haven't managed to figure out how to achieve similar functionality via the FreeBSD text consoles. I'm currently testing FreeBSD(7.0-RC2) under VMware. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! Unicode isn't supported in syscons at all (AFAIK). Check http://opal.com/jr/freebsd/unicode/ for more complete overview. HTH, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode Console?
Yuri, On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Yuri Pankov wrote: Unicode isn't supported in syscons at all (AFAIK). Check http://opal.com/jr/freebsd/unicode/ for more complete overview. Thanks for the info. According to the info at the above URL the FreeBSD syscons doesn't currently support unicode, but work is in progress. That page was last updated on 07/06/2007, so perhaps there has been some progress since then. I'll be watching for updates. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode Console?
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Fellow FreeBSD Fans, I've been running FreeBSD on a web/mail server, which I only have remote access to, for a while now. At home I've been running Linux since the 1.xx kernel days but am considering switching my desktop box to FreeBSD. I never given much thought to my locale setting until recently. I'm about to start participating in an online Spanish study group, via e-mail, and might also be following along with an Old English study group. I'm an old fashioned kinda user and prefer to do as much as I can via the text console. I compose/read e-mail via Alpine. After some trial and error I finally convinced my Linux box, currently running Arch Linux, to handle all of the special characters I need via the console. In the end, it amounted to: 1. Add en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen 2. run locale-gen 3. set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 4. Switch to a font that contains the symbols I need. I'm currently using one of the Terminus console fonts. For some reason I had to switch to a framebuffer console otherwise after executing unicode_start the font was way too dim. 5. run unicode_start(added to my .cshrc file) All this is not necessary. Just set the encoding in /etc/login.conf and run cap_mkdb on it afterwards. This is from my login.conf: :charset=UTF-8:\ :lang=en_GB.UTF-8:\ You can also set this on a per-user basis in the file ~/.login_conf. It won't work for the console, but in a terminal emulator (I prefer rxvt-unicode, but uxterm should also work.) it works fine. My FreeBSD system uses UTF-8 and I never encountered problems because of this. You just have to remember to mount fat devices with -L $LANG. The only thing to take care of is that the machine you're SSHing from uses the same charset. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
