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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter07/console.xml | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | packages.ent | 2 |
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 81bd28169..d49e66e4e 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ <para>2008-10-23</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>[dj] - Updated to lfs-bootscritps-20081023 to account for + changes in the console page.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[dj] - Updated text in console page to match current situation + regarding linux kernel changes. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for + the text and explanations.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>[dj] - Updated Man-DB instructions and text covering manual pages and related i18n issues.</para> </listitem> diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml index 54056a2aa..797861dc9 100644 --- a/chapter07/console.xml +++ b/chapter07/console.xml @@ -84,11 +84,14 @@ name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map - (as it is appropriate in the USA), <!-- because of the copyright sign --> + (as it is appropriate in the USA), + <!-- because of the copyright sign --> set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>. - If this variable is not set, the bootscript will not run the - <command>setfont</command> program, and the default VGA font will be - used together with the default application character map.</para> + In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for + conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus + the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the + composed key codes in the keymap.</para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -183,17 +186,17 @@ EOF</userinput></screen> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>There is no pre-made UTF-8 Russian keymap, therefore it has to be - produced by converting the existing KOI8-R keymap as illustrated - below:</para> + <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from + ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF" <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console UNICODE="1" -KEYMAP="ru-ms" -LEGACY_CHARSET="koi8-r" -FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16" +KEYMAP="de-latin1" +KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2" +LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15" +FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15" # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal> EOF</userinput></screen> @@ -204,14 +207,16 @@ EOF</userinput></screen> character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press Ctrl+. A E to get Æ</quote> in the default keymap). - Linux-&linux-version; in UTF-8 keyboard mode assumes that accented - characters produced via dead keys or composing are in the Latin-1 range - of Unicode, and it is impossible to change this assumption. Thus, - accented characters needed for, e.g., the Czech language, can't be typed - on Linux console in UTF-8 mode (but files containing these characters can - be displayed correctly). The solution is either to avoid the use of - UTF-8, or to install the X window system that doesn't have this - limitation in its input handling.</para> + Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the + keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together + are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European + languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII + characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in + UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one + sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>α</quote>. + The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the + X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input + handling.</para> </listitem> <listitem> diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent index a20ac0046..a4523ef99 100644 --- a/packages.ent +++ b/packages.ent @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ <!ENTITY less-ch6-du "2.8 MB"> <!ENTITY less-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU"> -<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-version "20080522"> <!-- Scripts depend on this format --> +<!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-version "20081023"> <!-- Scripts depend on this format --> <!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-size "BOOTSCRIPTS-SIZE KB"> <!-- Updated in Makefile --> <!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-url "&downloads-root;lfs-bootscripts-&lfs-bootscripts-version;.tar.bz2"> <!ENTITY lfs-bootscripts-md5 "BOOTSCRIPTS-MD5SUM"> <!-- Updated in Makefile --> |