Op Sat, 6 Oct 2007, schreef Frank McCormick:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:41:42 +0200 (CEST)
> Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I followed the suggestion made sometime ago about loading cp850-8x16
> > > font to get the line drawing characters when in the IDE on the console,
> > > but noticed then I don't have certain characters available on the
> > > keyboard, such as '/' etc. Whats the solution to this. This whole issue
> > > of fonts and codepages is a little beyond me :)
> >
> > You press the "/" key and no slash appears in the editor? Or you load
> > the font and the "/" stops working?
>
>
> The "/" key for example (there may be others that don't display properly)
> works
> but the character which appears is not "/".
>
> > How do you load the font, using "setfont" from the command line or by
> > modifying configuration files?
>
> I run setupcon (under Debian Sid) and it reads a config file
> in /etc/defaults/setupcon.conf. It has a line in it which allows you to load
> a font
> directly. I load cp850-8x16 and have the "/" problem. It does display line
> characters correctly however. Maybe I need to load a translate table ??
No, because cp850-8x16 has the right table built in. But if Debian's
scripts load a table designed for a different font, these kind to problems
can happen.
If you use tables, assuming your filesystem is ISO-8859-1 encoded, you
should load 8859-1_to_uni.trans as console translation table and cp850.uni
as the font unicode map.
Daniël
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