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Dear listmates, |
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(I did try to use a more specific mailing list, and tried |
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gentoo-admin, but it seems there's nobody around.) |
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I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.17 to 2.6.27, and it seems that |
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the new kernel causes the encoding of the console to behave weird: |
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I used to use the default Unix encoding, i.e. iso-8859-1, because this |
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was fine for German (now I want to stick to it because I have so much |
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legacy material in that encoding). Now, when I type a string with |
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Non-ASCII characters on the commandline, it looks normal, but when I |
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redirect this to a file, the file command identifies the contents of |
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that file (correctly, it seems to me) as UTF-8. When I boot the old |
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kernel (which I kept), the same procedure results in a file identified |
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as iso-8859-1 (and with accordingly fewer bytes). Here are the |
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contents (the same sentence): |
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Kernel 2.6.17: |
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"Ich kann es außerdem nicht ändern" |
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Kernel 2.6.27: |
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"Ich kann es außerdem nicht ändern" |
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I grepped the .config files for any options that might have a bearing |
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on this. The only difference I found was in the first of these four |
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lines: |
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linux-2.6.17: |
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# CONFIG_NLS_ASCII is not set |
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CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y |
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CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y |
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CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y |
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linux-2.6.27 |
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CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y |
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CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y |
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CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y |
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CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y |
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So I set $CONFIG_NLS_ASCII differently for the new kernel. But as far |
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as I understand, these refer to the handling of file names (it's in |
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the section "file systems"), and only specify what is supported, so I |
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don't see how this could have an effect on console encoding. |
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The only thing I am dead sure about is that the kernel itself must be |
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the culprit, because when I boot the old kernel, this behaviour goes |
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away. There is absolutely no change in the system otherwise. (The |
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$UNICODE variable in /etc/rc.conf is set to "no".) |
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Can anyone give me a hint where to look what I have messed up? Emacs, |
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which I sometimes like to use on the console, is particularly |
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uncomfortable with this, and I seem to write confusing e-mails. |
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Many thanks in advance for any hint, |
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Florian |
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