8-bit characters into console

[Gerrit Holl]

Hi,

I am unable to get 8-bit charaters from the console.

This is independent of the font I load from /lib/kbd/consolefonts (I'm
using lat19w-16 because latercyrheb doesn't seem to like boldface which
I can't live without). I have LANG=LC_TYPE=C. mapscrn doesn't do
anything either. I can't find information in the Linux keyboard and
console howto.

I'm testing it with this:
$ python -c "for i in range(128, 256): print i,chr(i),"
128  129  130  131  132  133  134  135  136  137  138  139  140  141  142  143
144  145  146  147  148  149  150  151  152  153  154  155  156  157  158  159
160  161  162  163  164  165  166  167  168  169  170  171  172  173  174  175
176  177  178  179  180  181  182  183  184  185  186  187  188  189  190  191
192  193  194  195  196  197  198  199  200  201  202  203  204  205  206  207
208  209  210  211  212  213  214  215  216  217  218  219  220  221  222  223
224  225  226  227  228  229  230  231  232  233  234  235  236  237  238  239
240  241  242  243  244  245  246  247  248  249  250  251  252  253  254  255

But I can't get *any* output with 8-bit characters.
What am I doing wrong?

Gerrit.