Re: Default character set of the Linux console

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 27 Dec 1997 00:16:18 +0100 (MET)


From: Qrczak <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
> You could try fooling with svgatextmode/setfont/alike ;)

Switching to ISO-8859-1 after ^[c is hard coded in the kernel, so I think
no external utility can change that - am I wrong?

Hmm - the translation is set to LAT1_MAP, but it would be
too optimistic to associate that with Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1).
So, maybe it does not matter. As we just learned, one can
work fine with this translation and a Latin-2 font,
provided one kills the unicode map.