Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-02 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Nikos, > On my /etc/rc.conf, there's this: > ># Set unicode to YES to turn on unicode support for keyboards ># and screens. >unicode="YES" It's set to "no" on my machine (I already posted this; this was the first thing outside the kernel that I considered, I think). (I

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Florian v. Savigny wrote: [...] I think I'll continue on a kernel list to figure out what kernel 2.6.27 does differently from 2.6.17, and why (and whether that behaviour cannot be changed with a compile-time option). I think that part is really not a gentoo-specific question. But I'll report here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-01 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Nikos, > Maybe the commands "unicode_start" and "unicode_stop" might help. Bull's eye! "unicode_stop" reverses the behavior completely to what the old kernel did. I looked inside; both are actually shell scripts; unicode_stop is very simple: kbd_mode -a if test -t ; then ech

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Florian v. Savigny wrote: [...] But still, I am wondering how to get the new kernel to behave as I want out of the box. My best guess is now that this console behaviour has become the default at some point between kernels 2.6.17 and 2.6.27, and that you now have to switch it off explicitely. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-01 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Nikos, > > $LANG and $LC_ALL are not set (i.e. locale simply shows > > "LANG=" and "LC_ALL=" with no values). All other LC_... variables are > > set to "POSIX". > > I don't think that will work. Interestingly, I just discovered the locales are different for one user (who has "de_DE

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Florian v. Savigny wrote: > locale > should shown it to you Thanks. $LANG and $LC_ALL are not set (i.e. locale simply shows "LANG=" and "LC_ALL=" with no values). All other LC_... variables are set to "POSIX". I don't think that will work. Here, locale says: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYP