[SOLVED] Question about "loadkeys" from the install procedure

DSpider · 2012-07-28 08:56:56

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# loadkeys ro_win

They show up as black squares... Even after generating these locales, as per the Beginner's Guide:

[root@archiso ~]# locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  ro_RO.UTF-8... done
  ro_RO.ISO-8859-2... done
Genetation complete.

What do?

PS: I noticed that they're activated with "Alt+Shift". There's no mention in the Install Guide or Beginner's Guide about this. Heh.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-08-24 14:45:34)

89c51 · 2012-07-28 11:35:36

Could it be a font thing?

DSpider · 2012-07-28 11:46:37

Well, it's the default from the install media... If the font is missing glyphs, then it's a bug and the next month's release should come with a different font. But I have a feeling that I need to re-generate the initramfs image after generating locales, for these squares to go away (which I obviously can't, since it's a LiveCD).

Hmmm... How do other countries (especially Asian ones) deal with this?

DSpider · 2012-07-29 06:20:33

Screenshot:

Black squares! Well... technically, white squares, I guess.

DSpider · 2012-07-31 19:14:40

I tried it on my (currently installed) system and instead of white squares, I get:

Sorry for the skewing. It was captured with a mobile phone.

The other screeenshot was from a VirtualBox session.

Here's my rc.conf:

http://sprunge.us/ACFU

Last edited by DSpider (2012-07-31 19:16:03)

drobole · 2012-08-01 11:12:31

Could be a UTF-8 thing maybe, by the smell of it...

brain0 · 2012-08-01 12:57:59

Sounds like a bug. Try booting with 'daemon_locale=yes'.

DSpider · 2012-08-01 13:21:41

Yeah, but DAEMON_LOCALE="yes" is in my current rc.conf and those characters don't show up.

Maybe I need to re-generate my initramfs somehow, with a different option in mkinitcpio.conf? You know, try making it work on my current install and then see if I can apply it to the LiveCD... ?

brain0 · 2012-08-01 15:30:38

But on the live CD, DAEMON_LOCALE defaults to 'no'. If you set it to yes using the kernel command line (which you can do on the ISO), it might just work (there have been a few bugs recently related to DAEMON_LOCALE and UTF8 characters).

DSpider · 2012-08-24 14:44:38

From the LiveCD (in VirtualBox):

# nano x
<wrote these characters>
# cat x | curl -F "sprunge=<-" http://sprunge.us

And they show up fine: http://sprunge.us/MKBj

ăîşţâ

ĂÎŞŢÂ

Until a better explanation comes along, I've added this info to the BG:

Don't worry if some of the letters show up as white squares or as other symbols. It's probably just the console font missing those glyphs. The glyph codes are correct and if you press the correct keys they will show up fine when (or if) you set up a graphical environment later.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … the_keymap

I guess I can mark it as solved...

DSpider · 2012-09-05 19:44:09

89c51 wrote:

Could it be a font thing?

It was actually nailed from the first reply.

# setfont Lat2-Terminus16

According to "/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/README.Lat2-Terminus16", it claims to support "about 110 language sets". Romanian characters do not show up without it.

The install media should probably load it by default or something...

Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-05 19:52:00)

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[SOLVED] Question about "loadkeys" from the install procedure

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