Hi, How does one go about choosing the correct keymaps and fonts for their system? I've read over chapter07/console.html several times but still have a couple of questions.
What I'm trying to do is configure a system to have a UK keymap and have a UTF-8 capable console. So far, I've got: UNICODE="1" KEYMAP="uk" However, as you'll note, unlike the Belgian keymap mentioned in the book, the UK keymap doesn't have a UTF-8 variant. I'm told I need to choose a LEGACY_CHARSET so that the bootscript will convert it to UTF-8 on the fly. The example for the ru_ms keymap is to convert the KOI8-R keymap, but I can't find any such keymap on my system. I think what is needed here is to look in /lib/kbd/consoletrans and pick a suitable [charset]_to_uni.trans file. So, I think I need '8859-1' in my LEGACY_CHARSET variable, right? If the above is correct, I think the following change might be suitable for the book: "There is no pre-made UTF-8 Russian keyamp, therefore it has to be produced by converting the existing KOI8-R keymap as illustrated below:" becomes "There is no pre-made UTF-8 Russian keyamp, therefore it has to be produced by converting the existing KOI8-R character set as illustrated below (available non-Unicode to Unicode character set mappings are available in /lib/kbd/consoletrans):" Similarly, for fonts, how do I determine which ones are UTF-8 capable and what flags I need to pass to setfont, via the FONT variable, so that it will display correctly? Thanks, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
