From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 11 17:34:53 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7345E98681 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B43D66FCF3 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1513013697; x=1515605697; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AiiGF9svp+9ZFX6BiHfBi+EwAbwyiFt2LoLlI5V5x+c=; b=q9MIcdSfbbCgdbwlUJjm3TmjkUcnCf49J8XaaJsmLjrgzlFjqvHVFBpYaWrpUzRFbk4yT57DTeNDiDl9sp6c4bt2RGrEgmYivPsUVJViWXLAi66g4NSWB5WVc2YZwbmwQRBfi3A4qRdk7PpPvY1/y5da0VT4ciSx0TMoYlsc07E= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi44MTAwMDAwMDZjNTIyYy5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [54.85.171.149]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:34:45 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:34:41 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1eORyR-000M4x-0o for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:39 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:38 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith 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: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:34:54 -0000 On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:28:52 +0000 Vitalio D 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