Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:17:27 -0500 From: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: console characters/keyboard Message-ID: <45d750d20512071917k76ac173ci286eb2e1f5bb0c49@mail.gmail.com>
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I have been working with a database recently that contained values with special characters. A lower case "n" with a tilde over it for instance. Anyway, during the conversion of the database from mysql to sqlite these special characters got corrupted. I ended up fixing them by hand since there weren't many, but during the process I realized these things: 1) My console does not print these characters, but empty box characters ins= tead 2) I have no good way of entering these characters (that I know of) with my standard keyboard layout and language settings. So the obvious questions follow: 1) Can I somehow alter my console or add fonts so these characters are displayed properly 2) I ended up writing a perl program and giving it html entities to decode back to the special character and insert into the database, but this is very roundabout. How can I set my FreeBSD box up to be able to enter such characters manually? Thanks in advance for any assistance, Aaron
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