Hello everyone! It's been a couple months since I decided to move to FreeBSD from Linux, It's been a challenging task, but rewarding indeed.
I had a working FreeBSD installation on an old laptop, but a hard disk failure totally ruined it (silly me, for not doing backups)
I fixed the drive, now I want to install it again to it's previous state, save a backup and buy a new drive. But I have a problem.
I live in Spain, so I have an spanish keyboard (iso-8859-15 keymap), but the system language is set to en_US (i want it that way). The problem is that ncurses applications don't draw lines, they don't display any characters or weird ones like ÄÄÄÄÄ3 instead of lines, same happens to the 'make config' dialog
Here's what I've done:
Installed the /devel/ncurses port
set the TERM variable to cons25l1 (for iso15 compatibility)
set the LANG variable to en_US.ISO8859-15
set the CHARSET variable to ISO-8859-15
current font is iso15
no screenmap applied
with this configuration, no boxes are displayed, where there should be a line (in ncurses), there's nothing visible
On the previous installation I had some sort of a mess-up and I wasn't able to display spanish-like characters like accents or ñ or ç, now I can, but ncurses won't get it
I've gone through lots of googling and I've read things about how ncurses uses UTF-8 encoding and stuff but I don't know what to do.
I want:
ncurses working and still being able to print accents and stuff
If anyone needs screenshots I'll gladly upload them
I had a working FreeBSD installation on an old laptop, but a hard disk failure totally ruined it (silly me, for not doing backups)
I fixed the drive, now I want to install it again to it's previous state, save a backup and buy a new drive. But I have a problem.
I live in Spain, so I have an spanish keyboard (iso-8859-15 keymap), but the system language is set to en_US (i want it that way). The problem is that ncurses applications don't draw lines, they don't display any characters or weird ones like ÄÄÄÄÄ3 instead of lines, same happens to the 'make config' dialog
Here's what I've done:
Installed the /devel/ncurses port
set the TERM variable to cons25l1 (for iso15 compatibility)
set the LANG variable to en_US.ISO8859-15
set the CHARSET variable to ISO-8859-15
current font is iso15
no screenmap applied
with this configuration, no boxes are displayed, where there should be a line (in ncurses), there's nothing visible
On the previous installation I had some sort of a mess-up and I wasn't able to display spanish-like characters like accents or ñ or ç, now I can, but ncurses won't get it
I've gone through lots of googling and I've read things about how ncurses uses UTF-8 encoding and stuff but I don't know what to do.
I want:
ncurses working and still being able to print accents and stuff
If anyone needs screenshots I'll gladly upload them