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Comete

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From: France

Registered: 2003-08-03

Posts: 46

just a simple but useful thing to add to rc.conf...

hi,

it's just a suggestion but i think it would be useful to add a CONSOLEFONT variable in rc.conf to help foreign people (i mean not US or RU to configure the support of special characters like the Euro symbol (for eg.). I don't think it would be very difficult to add.

Thanx.

Comete

Comete

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From: France

Registered: 2003-08-03

Posts: 46

Re: just a simple but useful thing to add to rc.conf...

and what about adding a file like "/etc/environment" to put all the environment variables in it, like in debian systems ?

Comete

jlvsimoes

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From: portugal

Registered: 2002-12-23

Posts: 392

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Re: just a simple but useful thing to add to rc.conf...

like this ?
in mine /etc/profile
export LESSCHARSET="latin9"

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Comete

Member

From: France

Registered: 2003-08-03

Posts: 46

Re: just a simple but useful thing to add to rc.conf...

not exactly,

export LESSCHARSET="latin9"  doesn't resolv the problem for the Euro (€) symbol in console mode.

But if you do :  setfont lat9w-16
(look at your /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts directory...)
...it works. So i think that adding a CONSOLEFONT="whatyouwant" in /etc/rc.conf that would be read by the /etc/rc.sysinit , could be a solution.

I know that i can put a setfont command in my /etc/rc.local but we put a lot of things in it...