On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 02:08 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > Well i wanted to ask for a console (the Alt+ Fn things) who controls > the default keymap, the default codepage, the default iocharset/nls if > you prefer. It is my fear that it's the kernel so if someone wants to > change them he would have to recompile the kernel, but then the question > remains. Upon boot (init level 3 always) which language will be used? > Although i don't think that it plays any role, let's assume a Fedora > Core 4 machine (it should be the same regardless of the Fedora Core > version but anyway) $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" #SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" KEYTABLE="us" The i18n file would appear to set the default, language, character encoding, and font. NB: Some are as terse as that example, some have many more lines. I presume the keyboard file sets the keymap, it looks that way, but I haven't tried changing things to see if it's actually used. I have messed with settings and seen different languages (with their native fonts) in the consoles, and that was just by changing settings (no recompiling needed). -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
