On Friday October 05, 2001, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > In a previous installation (Debian), I was able to enter and display > accented characters at the console with, for example, something like > "Ctrl-. 'e" for small e with acute accent. I was also able to load > different vga character sets with "setfont", and used it to load a > character set created in DOS. > > I don't have this set up right now, and forget the details, but I > know that there are one or two HOW-TO's that I consulted.
Setfont has been eclipsed by a newer "console-tools" package, which includes a similar "consolechars" utility. The "Danish" howto used to be the best source of info about this sort of thing, but last time I looked it hadn't been updated to deal with console-tools. Typing "apropos font" should turn up a man page to get you started. "Locale" is pertinent too. For diehard DOS fans, NLS support includes CP437 too. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
