Re: Console Fonts and Languages

Greetings Tim ,

to display correctly Greek Charachters under Console ( under X everything
is working great for as far as X Windows are concerned ) using
a 2.6.15.4 kernel from kernel.org

Tim wrote:

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)

Just to check that am getting things straight enough

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"

( iocharset )

SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

This is the line for the system font ( font to be used ) .
latarcyrheb-sun16 i think is the default font .

#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"

Here you define that only English are supported on
both UTF and ISO ( UTF and iso8859-1 )

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

The standard 102 keys keyboard

KEYTABLE="us"

This is the keymap i was asking .

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.

ACKnowledged but mine looks pretty much the same .


/etc/sysconfig/i18n

LANG="el_GR"
SYSFONT="fixedgr"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:el_GR.UTF-8:el_GR:el"

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="gr"

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.

Well i have . Don't presume . It is actually the file that sets they keymap
thing . It's the KEYTABLE thing in the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

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).

settings but i have failled .


Kind Regards,
  Kostas