Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. Substitution characters. I get the same thing when I work on a virtual console (ctrl-alt-Fn, not a shell window) with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8. Except that, sin

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > CODESET="Lat15" > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > FONTSIZE="8x16" I've got FONTFACE="Fixed" for wheezy, and that shows UTF-8 characters f

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that has them, because I can see them in X. Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and paste the page at http://facweb.furman.

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that > has them, because I can see them in X. Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and paste the page at http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mf

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are you attempting to get accented c

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are you attempting to get accented characters? Al

how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? The console-setup config has: # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="Lat15