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

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Thu May 4 06:37:18 UTC 2006


Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
>>> 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 outdated quickly and increase maintenance work.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).
> 

is this information installed by the module that installs these charmaps? I do 
not want to add a list if there already is one installed by the module...

Auke


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