Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-03-01 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Sebastian, > That is a problem of the consolefont, since the console can't display it > with cp1250... Maybe - if this font has codepage 1250, as one would assume, it should normally display a capital A with a short accent (I think that's a slavonic letter) in position hex c3. True, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 18:39]: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > > > etc. etc. ... > > > what does file say about the offending files? > > I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Sebastian, > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > > etc. etc. ... > what does file say about the offending files? I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, but what I see when I *type* into Emacs (such as in this mail message). But in c

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 11:35]: > > > Dear Sebastian, > > > > there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things > > The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT="cp1250". I would > not understand how the font could have an influence on the charac

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Eray Aslan
On 28.02.2009 12:34, Florian v. Savigny wrote: [...] > I'll follow your suggestion and re-post the problem on gentoo-user-de, > although I think running into that sort of problem might happen to > anybody who uses a European language other than English (one of those > covered by iso-8859-1, more pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Dear Sebastian, thank you for your thoughts. I am afraid switching to UTF-8 for everything, although I see that this is the sound thing to do eventually, is not currently an option for me - there are far too many things which depend on that. (Also, it would tend to obscure or complicate the pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [27.02.09 18:30]: > > Dear listmates, > > (I did try to use a more specific mailing list, and tried > gentoo-admin, but it seems there's nobody around.) > > I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.17 to 2.6.27, and it seems that > the new kernel causes the

[gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-27 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Dear listmates, (I did try to use a more specific mailing list, and tried gentoo-admin, but it seems there's nobody around.) I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.17 to 2.6.27, and it seems that the new kernel causes the encoding of the console to behave weird: I used to use the default Unix e