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SubjectRe: Accents bug in kernel 2.2.0pre5
Horst von Brand wrote:
>
> root <bbcat@netonecom.net> said:
> > Actually this bug has existed for a long long time on the kernel
> > 2.1.xxx and somehow seems to have been forgotten.
> >
> > What happens is that we can no longer see the characters correctly
> > in the console mode. From a terminal shell on X it works but not
> > in a console mode.
> > And yes the locale ISO-8859-1 as well as codepages 850 and 863 are
> > compiled in the kernel, same as I did for 2.0.36 where it works.
>
> Never seen anything like that here? 2.2.0pre6, and I've got all the
> codepages as modules, currently loaded are:
>
> [root@sleipnir perl5.005_54]# lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
> vfat 12892 1 (autoclean)
> fat 23584 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
>
> I see accented (and other assorted Latin-1) characters fine on the
> console. Spanish keyboard, loadkeys 0.96.
> --

I use the Aptiva CA keyboard, I prefered my CF keyboard but it died
and I live a long way from Québec. It seems just as cold though
(-20C tonight)

This one uses the 850 and 863 codepages under OS/2
I compiled both into the kernel to get support for it. Since I
added modutils-2.1.121.i386.rpm I can no longer load modules either
in the 2.0.36 or this kernel. I couldn't at all under the newer kernels
before so it now the same across the board. Joke aside, it gives
me :undefined symbol : __bzero in depmod and insmod

This rpm program is buggy as was util-linux-2.9-5.i386.rpm which I had
to reinstall RedHat after upgrading to it. At least this one wasn't
as destructive. I learned that you don't override rpm's about
a library even when you know that you have it when it is a vital
part of the system. I still haven't figured that one out. All I know
is that the system was dead on reboot, it kept asking for the login,
a dead system. Live and learn ...

To get back to the original problem, I got it fixed with a patch
that I found on an Italian newsgroup. I looked for hours, it's lucky
that I can read Italian.

I would like to thank Davide Manzoni for the idea.

The patch is this one in case someone has the same problem
(which I put in /etc/profile)

UNIMAP=iso01.uni
export UNIMAP

Davide uses cp437.uni but I don't
It works with iso01.uni. Youpi!!
As I saw in the kernel source it defaults to some crappy anglo
codepage if it doesn't find it's environment variable.

Now if I could get modules to load ...

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