Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:02:25 +0000 From: Vitalio D <v.dol_s@hotmail.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "steve@sohara.org" <steve@sohara.org> Subject: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on console Message-ID: <AM5PR0902MB192373DFA85FBA8DF0948EBEDC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CBdWv8BxUE-%2Bs-ceAxOv3NHCs2FETZsxqo6kq2s2YEYTA@mail.gmail.com> References: <AM5PR0902MB1923F0EC5C436D9FDB0E637DDC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> <20171211212252.e403c4d2.freebsd@edvax.de> <AM5PR0902MB1923C0A5EC84393214E84CC6DC370@AM5PR0902MB1923.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>, <CAOc73CBdWv8BxUE-%2Bs-ceAxOv3NHCs2FETZsxqo6kq2s2YEYTA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Ben, Polytropon, Steve
Ok got it at the end. As we say in french 'ouf enfin' :)
So yes both MM_CHARSET and LANG are mandatory
CHARSET should be UTF-8
and lang accordingly in my case fr_FR.UTF-8
>From ~/.login_config
me:\
:charset=3DUTF-8:\
:lang=3Dfr_FR.UTF-8:
Drawback is that now all doc is in french :) This is kind surprising that I=
'm
forced to read a doc in french when all I wanted is to be able to type som=
e=20
weird french letters. :) That's why I've missed it first time. I was just s=
etting the
charset but not lang.
valid lang values can be figured out as from handbook by running 'locale -a=
' command,
and yes there is a fr_FR.UTF-8 entry.
Thank you all.
I'll see if got time to read fdp-primer and submit diff for doc.
Thanks again. You guys rock.
________________________________________
From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:19 PM
To: Vitalio D
Cc: Polytropon; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; steve@sohara.org
Subject: Re: vt(4) iso-8859-1 latin accentuated characters do not show on c=
onsole
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 9:49 am, Vitalio D <v.dol_s@hotmail.com<mailto:v.dol=
_s@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello, Polytropon, Steve
Thank you guys for your help. I've figured it out finally.
So to use vt(4) with accented west European glyphs I had to do the followin=
g
in ~/.login_conf
me:\
:charset=3DUTF-8:
in rc.conf
keymap=3Dfr.acc
Steve, yes the handbook I was trying to read is fr_FR.ISO8859-1. There is n=
o fr_FR.UTF-8 handbook unfortunately (at least did not find on svn).
Also should the handbook (the i18l section) be updated since vt(4) is defau=
lt driver?
Hi Vitalio,
That=92s great it=92s now working for you!
Do you think you would be able to generate some text to add to the i18l sec=
tion of the handbook with your findings about vt(4), and submit it in a bug=
report?
You could initially just submit this as plain text, or even better if you w=
anted to go the next step, as a diff to the handbook source.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/
Instructions on how to submit improvements to the handbook are described in=
French here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/
Regards,
Ben
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