Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:38 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console Message-ID: <20171211173438.86e9fb419ebf545e13b32a0e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <AM5PR0902MB1923F0EC5C436D9FDB0E637DDC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> References: <AM5PR0902MB1923F0EC5C436D9FDB0E637DDC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:28:52 +0000 Vitalio D <v.dol_s@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 11.1-STABLE snapshot from November. By default my vty driver > is vt(4) as seen from sysctl kern.vty > kern.vty=vt > > I've tried to configure french keyboard so to be able to see and type > accentuated characters, but could not succeed. > > I've amended ~/.login_conf with > me:\ > :charset=ISO-8859-1:\ > :lang=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1: The vt terminal only supports UTF-8 and will display UTF-8 text correctly no matter what the locale settings are. For typing you'll have to select an appropriate keyboard map that supports typing accented characters, with us.acc.kbd the compose mechanism works. > So my question is: should i file a bug ? Only if there's a problem with using the vt console as a UTF-8 terminal. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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