vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Dec 11 22:14:19 UTC 2017
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:02:25 +0000, Vitalio D wrote:
> Hello, Ben, Polytropon, Steve
>
> Ok got it at the end. As we say in french 'ouf enfin' :)
>
> So yes both MM_CHARSET and LANG are mandatory
> CHARSET should be UTF-8
> and lang accordingly in my case fr_FR.UTF-8
> From ~/.login_config
>
> me:\
> :charset=UTF-8:\
> :lang=fr_FR.UTF-8:
>
> Drawback is that now all doc is in french :)
> This is kind surprising that I'm
> forced to read a doc in french when all I wanted is to be able to type some
> weird french letters. :)
That is surely _not_ surprising. Setting lang in login.conf
has an effect on certain LC_ variables. As you know, there
is LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES (the system messages), LC_TIME for
time format, and so on, and there is LANG (with a specific
precedence).
If you don't set lang in login.conf, but instead use your
C shell login file with setenv's, you can exercise more
control:
setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
As well as:
setenv LC_MESSAGES en_US.UTF-8
setenv LC_COLLATE de_DE.UTF-8
setenv LC_CTYPE de_DE.UTF-8
setenv LC_MONETARY de_DE.UTF-8
setenv LC_NUMERIC de_DE.UTF-8
setenv LC_TIME de_DE.UTF-8
This example will set german standards everywhere, but the
messages will still be in the preferred english language.
> That's why I've missed it first time. I was just setting the
> charset but not lang.
Keyboard language and screen language should match, at least
agree on the character set. :-)
> valid lang values can be figured out as from handbook by running
> 'locale -a' command,
> and yes there is a fr_FR.UTF-8 entry.
That entry name is correct.
Now you're probably beginning to experience the joy of incompatible
character encodings on your system - ISO8859-1 vs. UTF-8, different
kinds of spaces that all look the same, one byte ot two bytes, well,
who cares... and don't even try to count how many characters...
THERE ARE FOUR CHARACTERS! ;-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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