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? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics tel:+972-54-227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942) Thursday, 23 Av 5763, 21 August 2003, 12:50PM ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]