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Date:      Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:51:26 +0200
From:      Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: font problem during rc WAS: tput and clear problem
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020922134733.00bcc610@mail.lusidor.com>
In-Reply-To: <200209221122.g8MBMTYf018385@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020921123345.00bcc128@mail.lusidor.com>

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>  > #!/bin/sh
>  > LC_ALL=3Dsv_SE.ISO_8859-1; export LC_ALL
>  > LANG=3Dsv_SE.ISO_8859-1; export LANG
>
>That's not a good idea, IMO.  It is better to set LC_CTYPE
>only.  Setting LC_ALL and LANG will change the output format
>of several important commands, including "date", "ps", "ls"
>and others.  There are scripts which try to parse their
>output, which can break in various ways.

OK, Will do.
>  > MM_CHARSET=3DISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSET
>  > export TERM=3D"cons25-iso8859-1"
>  > export TERMCAP=3D"/etc/termcap"
>
>Uhm, do not set TERMCAP to a filename (/etc/termcap would
>be wrong anyway; it's in /usr/share/misc).  The TERMCAP
>environment variable is meant to carry a whole termcap
>entry, not a filename.  You shouldn't set TERMCAP at all.
>
>  > Still I'm unable to use the sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 specific fonts. the=20
> umlauts =E5=E4=F6
>  > Anyone got a clue about what in the enviroment that i left out?
>
>Probably because you don't have the ISO8859-1 font loaded
>to your VGA graphics card.  To do that, just set the
>appropriate variables in your /etc/rc.conf file, and
>everything will be set up for you during boot automatically.
A part of my previous post was snipped out, it stated that the script I'm=20
writing is run before the rc.conf.
Is there a way I can set it in the script directly?
Thank you very much for your input Oliver, its much appreciated.
Jim.
>Regards
>    Oliver
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