Hi, I have a basic GNU/Linux system (kernel 2.4.17, glib 2.2.4, no X, bash 2.05a) and I would like to convert it or reinstall it as a 100% UTF-8 system. I'm using the Linux console and I'm aware of its UTF-8 support. I would like to know where I can find a valid French keymap with euro for the UTF-8 mode of the keyboard driver (to be sure that the over 0x7F chars get converted to the right UTF-8 values), if it exists and makes sense (I assume that the keyboard driver in UTF-8 mode converts over 0x7f chars in a pretty mechanical way). With the same idea, I'm looking for a good 512 glyphs font for the Linux console. What is the best way to convert my man pages and my info pages to UTF-8 (iconv, recode...)? BTW, could those pages be installed directly in UTF-8 through the glibc locale system? In terms of glibc locale, should I use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (should it be fr_FR.utf8@euro ?) from li18nux.org or generate mine with localedef even if I have a bucket load of warnings/errors (locale made for ISO-8859-15 charset...)? How bash2.05a, ncurses 5.2 and glibc2.2.4 are going to deal with it? What are the commands that would bother me if their utf8 support does not exit or is a kind of broken? (I reckon less, man, info, more...)
Cheers, Sylvain ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
