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Hello, you wrote: |
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> Hi there. I plan to use GentooLinux (I using Linux since 2.0, FreeBSD |
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> since 4.2) |
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> coz it have ports-like system, it's just grate! But I should know how I be |
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> able type and see russian chars(koi8-r) in console? |
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> What tool is used(kbd?). What doc I should read? Or russification of |
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> Gentoo is the same as other distros(Slackware for example)? |
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> Thanks. |
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That's how I do it: (The toolkit for console/keyboard manipulations in Gentooo |
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is kbd) |
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In /etc/rc.conf, you should set |
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KEYMAP, CONSOLEFONT and CONSOLETRANSLATION. |
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For keymap, there are several choices. Personally, I use a version of "ru-ms" changed so that |
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my backspace key sends "Delete" (the line that does it is commented in the original ru-ms.map) |
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Or you can use one of the ru*.map's you like best. |
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The console fonts for KOI8-R included in kbd are inevitably ugly, so if you don't like them, |
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you can load the Cyr_a8x16 font and, as it's for cp866, load the koi2alt translation. |
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The distros like RedHat use a font called 'cyr-sun16' which looks very nice, so you could |
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as well take it from a RedHat package and use it. (Then you'll need the 'koi8r' unimap) |
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As for l18n, I created a /etc/env.d/91locale file: |
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LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R |
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With best regards, Alexander V. Svadkovsky |
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