On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:17:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > With the exception of vi_VN and zh_CN those all render in my > > console with my LatGrkCyr font. Vietnamese can work, but you won't > > get much else except english from a screen font that handles it. > > > > I suspect that the turkish is a bit garbled - it seems to have a > > lot of dollar signs in it. > > Are those issues something that should be addressed by LFS or upstream? zh_CN works in a graphic term, with a suitable font, which is how people using that locale will probably read the help. The limit of 512 glyphs for the linux, even in a framebuffer, is the problem. So the only real issue is the turkish translations. Nothing to do with LFS, and I'll leave it to someone who can read turkish. > > Also, I don't know how many people use a console any more. Virtually > all of the larger distros go directly to xdm or equivalent. A remote ssh > doesn't use console fonts if run from an xterm or equivalent. I do boot > to a console, but most of the time my first command is startx or to > access the system from another system via ssh. Occasionally I'll do a > little work from the console, but that is/was only to debug the boot > scripts. > Yeah, consoles don't get much use - once I've built xorg I mostly use the console to check the kbd messages render ;)
> We've got three possibilities here: > > 1. Leave it alone > 2. Use a sed and only change the location of the kbd.mo files > 3. Put all the support files in /usr/share > > My initial reaction is to do 3, but I could be persuaded otherwise. > > -- Bruce If we don't need the progs in /bin, then 3 - plus not moving the progs sounds like a sensible plan. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
