Jeremy Henty wrote: > I upgraded my LFS 6.1.1 from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24 and now all 8-bit > characters appear as a reverse-video question mark in the terminal. > At least this is true for the pound sign in emacs, and accented > characters in mutt. If I run emacs in xterm the pound signs are OK. > > The local Linux Users Group suggested running "unicode_start", which > changed the font but otherwise didn't help, and running: > > kbd_mode -u > echo -n -e '\033%G' > setfont latarcyrheb-sun16 > > ...which also didn't help and complained it couldn't find the font > latarcyrheb-sun16 . > > I didn't touch anything outside /boot when I upgraded. Ages ago I > customised /etc/sysconfig/console to set KEYMAP="uk" and > FONT="lat1-14" , but that's the only change. > > Any ideas?
This is because the new kernel defaults to UTF-8 on the console. You need a new version of the "console" bootscript to drive it out of this mode. P.S. The suggestion to switch your system to UTF-8 (as you tried to do above) is invalid - LFS 6.1.1 simply didn't compile the ncurses library the right way, didn't install a UTF-8 compatible variant of the "man" program, and didn't apply the needed patches to important packages such as grep, coreutils, diffutils and groff. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
