Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:54:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8-bit characters anyone? Message-ID: <20050322215440.GA821@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503222102290.1391@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503222102290.1391@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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On 2005-03-22 21:07, Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> wrote: > > I have an odd problem. I can't get any 8-bit characters to show up > after an upgrade. > > On the console nothing happens after I run kbdmap and choose Swedish > ISO-8859-1. It just beeps, and prints the non-Swedish characters like > before. > > In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I > though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the > keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish > do they not appear. > > Oddly enough, in emacs everything looks like it should! > > What am I missing, and what didn't I do after the upgrade? You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in your environment. What does the following in one of your shells? % env | grep LANG % env | grep LC_ - Giorgos
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