Console Fonts and Languages

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 02:08 +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Well i wanted to ask for a console (the Alt+ Fn things) who controls 
> the default keymap, the default codepage, the default iocharset/nls if
> you prefer. It is my fear that it's the kernel so if someone wants to
> change them he would have to recompile the kernel, but then the question
> remains. Upon boot (init level 3  always) which language will be used?
> Although i don't think that it plays any role, let's assume a Fedora 
> Core 4 machine (it should be the same regardless of the Fedora Core
> version but anyway)

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="us"

The i18n file would appear to set the default, language, character
encoding, and font.  NB:  Some are as terse as that example, some have
many more lines.

I presume the keyboard file sets the keymap, it looks that way, but I
haven't tried changing things to see if it's actually used.  I have
messed with settings and seen different languages (with their native
fonts) in the consoles, and that was just by changing settings (no
recompiling needed).

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