Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:40:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3-language support - howto? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004030103110.24657-100000@kushnir1.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <8c7h43$10ui$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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First off, thank you for very good explanation & advice. On 2 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net> wrote: > > > Is there any way to enable triple-language (console) support under > > FreeBSD? In my case, English+Russian+Ukrainean. > > I'm not sure what "triple-language support" translates to in > technical terms. I assume what you need is (1) a font that has the > characters required for all three languages and (2) ditto a keymap. Fortunately, I found all of those on an FTP site (<URL:ftp://ftp.carrier.kiev.ua/pub/koi8-u/UNIX/FreeBSD>, most probably lots of other sites). [...] > I notice that we don't seem to have any KOI8-U or ISO 8859-5 console > fonts. Hmm. KOI8-U you could probably modify yourself from KOI8-R > with a font editor such as xmbdfed. Or you could pick up appropriate > Linux console fonts. There's some simple format conversion necessary, > I think, but the font data itself is compatible (VGA-style). At the site I mentioned there's one, with both Russian and Ucrainean characters. Actually, this is a complete FreeBSD package, and I wonder why noboby committed it in package/port collection. > > There's a Ukrainian KOI8-U keymap which you might want to take as > a starting point, even if you can't take it as it is. Had to tweak it a bit for more convenience, but generally ot works. > > > P.S. OT: would some kind soul send me codes (or point to them) for > > Ukrainean letters in other (DOS, M$-Win) encodings? > > That sounds like a case for Roman Czyborra's character set soup > <URL:http://www.czyborra.com>. If he doesn't list anything there, > send him e-mail and I'm sure he'll be able to point you to a source. > Thanks again, Regards, Vladimir -- ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | vkushnir@Alfacom.net | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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