On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 00:47 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: > In case that plays any role i am trying to setup my Fedora Core 4 > installation 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: >> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n >> LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" > Here you set your language to be English and you are selecting UTF > charachter set > ( iocharset ) English, Australian variant. UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set, to be precise; which doesn't matter what language you're using it with. Unicode is meant to cover them all. >> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" > This is the line for the system font ( font to be used ) . Yes. >> #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 ) I'm not sure if anything is defined there, it's preceded by a hash mark, and that usually means it's commented out. If it wasn't commented out, I'd expect it to list various alternatives that are able to be used. >> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard >> KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" > The standard 102 keys keyboard >> KEYTABLE="us" > This is the keymap i was asking . It's what I'd expect for anyone using the US-style, IBM QWERTY keyboard layout. >> 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'm not the one doing the experimenting... But I'd imagine that both lines are important. PC keyboards aren't the only types around. I'd expect you'd have to put something different in there if you were using a Mac keyboard, for instance. >> 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). > Well untill now i was unsuccessfull . Tried with various fonts with the > above settings but i have failled . I'm not sure if you're saying you've now been successful, or not. Those two sentences contradict each other. -- (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.
