On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Interesting, I have: > > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 > > and in /etc/console-tools/config > > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 > > With that setup, Dotan Cohen's line looks like solid black squares > > separated by dashes. > > You mean this is happening on the Linux console, right? > > Your LANG setting is fine, but the "lat0-sun16" console font doesn't > contain any Hebrew characters, so that's why you're getting solid > black squares (indicating "no character available") separated by > dashes. You can load a Hebrew font on the current console: > > consolechars -f iso08.f16.psf.gz > > and Dotan's list should show up fine, but then accented latin > characters won't be available. > > I think without special support, the Linux console handles only 256 > characters at once (or 512 if you're willing to give up bold text). > You can use the "dynafont" package, which uses dynamic font loading > tricks to allow displaying text that requires more code space than > that. It comes with a font that includes about 7900 glyphs and does > pretty well if you don't care about Asian language support.
Or use the ugly hack called LatArCyrHeb, to have characters of Latin, Arabic, Cyrrilic and Hebrew. But sadly, without line-drawing characters. Or use "iso08" like the ancient ones :-( -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
