From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 21:55:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF8C16A4CF for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:55:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1366943D39 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 6450 invoked by uid 207); 22 Mar 2005 21:54:56 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.224):. Processed in 0.967736 secs); 22 Mar 2005 21:54:56 -0000 Received: from dialup224.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.224]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Mar 2005 21:54:54 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2MLsfoP000926; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:54:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j2MLseWl000925; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:54:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:54:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andreas Davour Message-ID: <20050322215440.GA821@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8-bit characters anyone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:55:05 -0000 On 2005-03-22 21:07, Andreas Davour 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