On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:50:32PM -0700, Randy Goldenberg wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the info. I believe the original poster asked about the availability of international language support in Linux text-mode (console) without graphics. With the help of the Keyboard-and-Console HOWTO (which makes reference to the Danish HOWTO), I was able to set this up (again) fairly easily for my own use under bash with the keyb utilities (loadkeys and setfont) that are included in my Debian installation (Standard). The newer console-tools are indeed available (dselect), but I have not (yet) installed them. Hopefully, the original poster has been reassured. Howard E. -- http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/ 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
