On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Richard Melville wrote: > > Ken -- thanks for the reply. I changed the font setting over the weekend > and now it seems to be OK. The problem was the following: typing worked > OK, and if I made a typo and wanted to delete with the backspace key, > deletion worked OK, however, when I began to type again that's when I saw > the white blocking. > > I know very little about fonts, keymaps, unicode, etc.
These days, few people know much about screen fonts and keymaps. > What I would like > to do is set up a unicode environment but I'm not sure how to go about it, > although I'll probably only be using an accented "e", an umlaut/diaeresis, > and a euro symbol in addition to a uk keymap. The following are the > console parameters of /etc/sysconfig/rc.site (I'm not using > /etc/sysconfig/console) and I've left my original font setting in, but > commented out:- > > # Console parameters > UNICODE=0 You seem to have have turned unicode off. I can't really comment on how the other settings play in a legacy environment. When you set it to '1' you might need to alter your profile to ensure you are using a UTF-8 version of LC_ALL or whatever (en_GB.UTF-8 for most people in the UK). > KEYMAP="uk" I used to use that - worked ok, but I wanted more :) > #KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2" > #FONT="default8x16" > FONT="lat1-16 -m 8859-1" Those are both 256 character fonts, I would say that the coverage of lat1-16 is slightly better (in a unicode environment). If you don't need the bright colours, you might prefer a 512 character font. I've got a few files at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/ in the keyboard-items and fonts directories - note that LatGrkCyr-8x16 is a 512-ish character font and ships in kbd. It comes from the sigma fonts there which are very much "roll your own" but do allow a 256 character font if that is what you need. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
