Have you run unicode_start? It is not enough to change the fonts. You have to
set the kernel to start utf-8 more (multy-byte characters) on each vt.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:44:03 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Hebrew in RH9 console":
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to setup a RH9 computer's console font for decent Hebrew.
> 
> I put in /etc/sysconfig/i18n :
> 
> LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=LatArCyrHeb-16
> 
> When I run /sbin/setsysfont it changes the font , but after it the
> output of 'date' still shows up as gibrish, and when running 
> "vim -H +'set aleph=1488' the letters show up as something that I
> believe to be cyrillic.
> 
> The locale is already set from that /etc/sysconfig/i18n using 
> ". /etc/profile.d/lang.sh"
> 
> I tried several unimaps and acm files, but no luck. What am I missing?
> 
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