tty1 and italian charset ...

tty1 and italian charset ...

[Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli]

Hi all,

  I'm not sure not to be OT, if so plz apologize me...

I'm fighting against a problem with "òàèìù" characters on my laptop since I 
switched to 2.6.0 ... The problem persists nowaday with 2.67 (various 
recompilations, with or without nvidia module loaded, and so on ...)

I already used "loadkeys it" and it seems to success, but tty1 still doesn't 
prints "òàèìù" characters.

The very strange thing, that let me suppose some kerenl-related issue, is that 
_every_ other tty is working fine, as it does every xterm session...

I'mwriteing now becouse just iesterday I installed a new server and I got the 
same problem here.

My laptop is running a Debian SID, the new server is running a Debian Sarge.

On both machines I'm using 2.6.7 (both debian binaries and a self compiled 
vanilla) with udev, sysfs and hotplug... my console-tools version is 0.2.3

Any suggestion ???

thank you in advance

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Re: tty1 and italian charset ...

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <200407261647.40006.AlberT@SuperAlberT.it>
By author:    "Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli" <AlberT@SuperAlberT.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I already used "loadkeys it" and it seems to success, but tty1 still doesn't 
> prints "òàÚìù" characters.
> 

Sounds like you're trying to print Latin-1 on an UTF-8 console or vice versa.

	echo -ne '\\033%G'	-- Enable UTF-8
	echo -ne '\\033%@'	-- Disable UTF-8

	-hpa

Re: tty1 and italian charset ...

[Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli]

On 03:03, mercoledì 28 luglio 2004, you wrote:
> > I already used "loadkeys it" and it seems to success, but tty1 still
> > doesn't prints "òàÚìù" characters.

uh ??

no sorry, you are not seeing the characters I'm trying to type...
my charset is setted (on system-wide basis) to it_IT@EURO, no UTF-8 ... btw, 
tryng to use UTF-8, iso-15, iso-1 and so on does not affect the problem.

The characters I'm tring to print are the "italian single letter" that on a us 
keyboard I would type as " a` ", " e` ", " e' ", " i` ", "o` ", " u` " ...

I repeat that the strange thing is that _only_ tty1 as this strange 
beahviour .. not dipending on the user logged in (infact I have this problem 
already at login time, when I have to type the login name... If I'd have a 
login name containing one of this characters I could not login from tty1)...

Is tty1 somehow special in respect to other ttys ???


>
> Sounds like you're trying to print Latin-1 on an UTF-8 console or vice
> versa.
>
>         echo -ne '\\033%G'      -- Enable UTF-8
>         echo -ne '\\033%@'      -- Disable UTF-8
>
>         -hpa

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Re: tty1 and italian charset ...

[Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli]

On 18:31, giovedì 29 luglio 2004, you wrote:
> > > Sounds like you're trying to print Latin-1 on an UTF-8 console or vice
> > > versa.
> > >
> > >         echo -ne '\\033%G'      -- Enable UTF-8
> > >         echo -ne '\\033%@'      -- Disable UTF-8
> > >
> > >         -hpa
>
> (If it is not that, then investigate your font, etc.
> This is probably not a kernel matter.)

yep, I tried them ... without the double backslash :-)

they just turn UTF-8 on/off ... no change about my problem.
What problem in my font ??  why should my font works wrong _only_ on tty1 ???

is there a place in kernel where I could set a wrong font for console, and a 
reason explaining why this affects only tty1 ?



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Re: [SOLVED] tty1 and italian charset ...

[Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli]

On 16:30, venerdì 30 luglio 2004, Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli wrote:
> On 18:31, giovedì 29 luglio 2004, you wrote:
> > > > Sounds like you're trying to print Latin-1 on an UTF-8 console or
> > > > vice versa.
> > > >
> > > >         echo -ne '\\033%G'      -- Enable UTF-8
> > > >         echo -ne '\\033%@'      -- Disable UTF-8
> > > >
> > > >         -hpa
> >
> > (If it is not that, then investigate your font, etc.
> > This is probably not a kernel matter.)
>
> yep, I tried them ... without the double backslash :-)
>
> they just turn UTF-8 on/off ... no change about my problem.
> What problem in my font ??  why should my font works wrong _only_ on tty1
> ???
>
> is there a place in kernel where I could set a wrong font for console, and
> a reason explaining why this affects only tty1 ?

thanx to Andries suggestion I forced SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 
in /etc/console-tools/config ... now it works fine :-)


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