Text mode (CLI), Knoppix, russian
Hi I have tried to run the Debian distribution called Knoppix with language set up for russian. The GUI looks fine but when I turn over to text mode it still has latin screen font and keyboard driver. Can someone guide me to how I install or set up my system so it as perfect as it can be. Also I want lynx to show cyrillic characters too. What do I do with Pine? Is there anything special I should do with 'vi'? If possible I would like the information in english, as I don't understand russian yet. best regards/hans -- Hamletsgade 4 - 201, DK-2200 København N, Phone: +45 3582 9079 Schou Industries ApS http://schou.dk/CVR: 26 13 44 39 -- Betal for fri software, eller få støtte til dit projekt! http://frisoftware.dk/ - mød dem på http://linuxforum.dk/
Re: Text mode (CLI), Knoppix, russian
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:11:53PM +0100, Hans Schou wrote: > I have tried to run the Debian distribution called Knoppix with > language set up for russian. The GUI looks fine but when I turn over > to text mode it still has latin screen font and keyboard driver. Try apt-get install console-cyrillic This package contains cyrillic console fonts and keyboard mappings. UniCyr font probably be the best choice for you. > perfect as it can be. Also I want lynx to show cyrillic characters > too. What do I do with Pine? Is there anything special I should do > with 'vi'? You should select cyrillic font for your xterm, it is enough for most terminal applications. Try one of the fonts contained in xfonts-cyrillic, xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi and xfonts-bolkhov-misc packages. Note that for lynx you should explicitly specify encoding: CHARACTER_SET:koi8-r ASSUME_CHARSET:koi8-r ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET:koi8-r -- Andrey V. Kiselev Home phone: +7 812 5274898 ICQ# 26871517
Re: Text mode (CLI), Knoppix, russian
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Andrey Kiselev wrote: > apt-get install console-cyrillic I'll try that... > This package contains cyrillic console fonts and keyboard mappings. > UniCyr font probably be the best choice for you. OK, I tried the UniCyr - which does not look good to me. I'm working on designing braille table for blind russian users. I thought I should use setfont koi8r-8x8 to get the fonts look right. After loading the font I edit this file: http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/braille/text.ru.txt The mapping should be koi8 but it looks wrong with UniCyr. Á C1 193 ( 1)01 B+2801 U+0430 cyrillic small letter a Ä C4 196 ( 145 )0B B+2819 U+0434 cyrillic small letter de Is the above a cyrillic a and d? Should I use ISO-8859-5 instead? ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-5.TXT Here is "cyrillic small a" 0xD0 and not 0xC1 as above. Can someone explain this? Which standard will a blind text mode user use? > You should select cyrillic font for your xterm, xterm is not an issue for blind people. Not at this time though. If you are courious about blind table, you can see them here. http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/braille/?t1=ru&c=14 The blind driver is here http://mielke.cc/brltty/ best regards/hans -- Hamletsgade 4 - 201, DK-2200 København N, Phone: +45 3582 9079 Schou Industries ApS http://schou.dk/CVR: 26 13 44 39 -- Betal for fri software, eller få støtte til dit projekt! http://frisoftware.dk/ - mød dem på http://linuxforum.dk/
Re: Text mode (CLI), Knoppix, russian
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:23:26PM +0100, Hans Schou wrote: > to get the fonts look right. After loading the font I edit this file: > http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/braille/text.ru.txt > The mapping should be koi8 but it looks wrong with UniCyr. > > ? C1 193 ( 1)01 B+2801 U+0430 cyrillic small letter a > ? C4 196 ( 145 )0B B+2819 U+0434 cyrillic small letter de ^^^ > Is the above a cyrillic a and d? No we see, that Pine requires special tuning to work with koi8-r encoding :-) I'm not a Pine user, so I don't know how to fix this. But I have looked at link above, this is really table in koi8-r encoding, so you should use koi8-r everywhere. > Should I use ISO-8859-5 instead? > ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-5.TXT > Here is "cyrillic small a" 0xD0 and not 0xC1 as above. There is a mess with different cyrillic encodings. We have several incompatible ones. ISO-8859-5 was used in commercial Unix systems, but in the free unices KOI8-R was used instead. Now ISO-8859-5 practically unused and you may safely forget about it. Another widely spreaded encodings are CP1251, used in MS Windows systems, and CP866, used in MS DOS (and all of this codepages are incompatible with each other!). > Can someone explain this? > Which standard will a blind text mode user use? Your software will be used on Linux systems, so koi8-r should be supported in any case. Probably you should make codepage selection process easy configurable to get possibility select any one. -- Andrey V. Kiselev Home phone: +7 812 5274898 ICQ# 26871517
