From owner-freebsd-i18n Sun Nov 17 12: 9:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7B437B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:09:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nuit.iteration.net (nuit.iteration.net [198.92.249.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7006B43E97 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keichii@nuit.iteration.net) Received: by nuit.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B64C811B646; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:09:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:09:43 -0800 From: "Michael C. Wu" To: Mike Makonnen Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating new locales Message-ID: <20021117200943.GB42136@nuit.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C. Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C. Wu" , Mike Makonnen , freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021117041857.GA34284@matrix.identd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021117041857.GA34284@matrix.identd.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:18:57PM -0800, Mike Makonnen scribbled: | I get a font converter? No idea regarding the font issues. | | The charset encoding is utf8, so I created an LC_TYPE with a UTF2 | encoding. And that's about as far as I have gone. | I suppose next thing I have to do is create a keyboard map and a screen map. | Keymap.5 was helpfull about the first, but I'm not too sure about | what a screen map is and what I have to do about it. What's the | relationship between a font file, a keyboard map, and a screen | map (my most important question)? | | The amharic character set contains something between 300-400 | characters, so I was wondering how some other languages with | more thatn 127 characters manage to work on the console. How do | you map 2 or more keystrokes to one character? A basic | outline or pointer would really help. | reference ports/chinese/zhcon or big5con | My initial goal is to be able to cat a utf8 encoded amharic | text file. | I don't think FreeBSD has UTF8 support in console yet. Your best route would be to use X to do so. | Cheers, | Mike. | -- | GPG Key: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/gpg.key | pub 1024D/7D39509A 2002-10-08 Mike Makonnen | Key fingerprint = 5491 488A 0445 2DCC 777B 1F03 F3AB F9F8 7D39 509A ------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message