[1.6.0 ISO][patch] charmap not defined when loading console font(update)

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

> > All charmaps are here: /usr/share/consoletrans/*.acm.gz
>
> I know where they are, that is not the problem. The problem lies in the
> code I have to write to make the menu's list them properly, preferably with
> some descriptive text about what the charmap actually is (e.g. do you know
> what iso04 is???).
>
> I do not want to maintain a list of available charmaps, it would be
> outdated quickly and increase maintenance work.
>
> Auke

These ISOs were created about year 1985 and are always the same. They will be 
replaced by one ISO 10646 (known as unicode) someday in the future. The iso 
charsets can not be changed. If any goverment need to change anything in iso 
charset it must create iso with another number or name (and look for 
agreemnet in  ISO organization). That is why nothing interesting happens in 
isos above number 09 (only small changes with particular characters).

iso01 - Both Americas, West Europe, Australia, most parts of Africa languages:
French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian 
(it), Albanian (sq), Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Dutch (nl), German (de), Danish 
(da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), Finnish (fi), Faroese (fo), Icelandic 
(is), Irish (ga), Scottish (gd), English (en), Afrikaans (af), Swahili (sw).

iso02 - Central Europe languages:
Czech (cs), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Croatian (hr), Slovak 
(sk), Slovenian (sl), Sorbian.

iso03 -  Esperanto (eo) and Maltese (mt).

iso04 - Nord Europe: Estonian (et), Latvian (lv),  Lithuanian (lt), 
Greenlandic (kl), Lappish.

iso05 - Languages written in Cyrillic (East Europe)
Bulgarian (bg), Byelorussian (be), Macedonian (mk), Russian (ru), Serbian 
(sr), Ukrainian (uk).

iso06 - Arabic (ar)

iso07 - South Europe: Greek (el)

iso08 - Hebrew (iw), Yiddish (ji).

iso09 - Turkish 

The upper iso numbers repalce less important characters as euro sign or 
characters rarely used. Most people know which charset is good for their 
language so description is not required. In Central Europe 99% of linux users 
know that iso02 is right for them. This 1% learn fast when first time install 
linux and see unreadable output from autotranslated programs. Just default to 
iso01 if nothing is selected or 'do not know'. If you want to add description 
expand iso0? file name to full name which is better recognized by people: 
ISO-8859-? All the iso charsets contain ascii basic charset so there is no 
problem with reading input and displaying output of lunar scripts and English 
only programs.

greetings,
Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski