Question

I’m using Linux Mint. I’m unable to find the /etc/sysconfig/console file that would tell me the values of the keymap,font,utf-8 mode support,etc. values for my system. Is there a way I could do it? I tried echo $UNICODE and echo $FONT but they don’t return anything. Pretty much a newbie to Linux. Kindly help or guide. 🙂

Answer 1

The GB locale is not installed by default in the LFS implementation. You can see this if you run

locale -a

You need to install the locale definition for GB using

localedef

exec the following:

localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_GB en_GB.UTF-8
localedef -c -f ISO-8859-1 -i en_GB en_GB.ISO-8859-1

This give you the two main standards. Then all you need to do for console and profile is insert the locale code for GB using the process as is described in the book. (I have used the ISO standard in the code below.)

cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/console

KEYMAP="uk"
FONT="lat1-16 -m 8859-1"

# End /etc/sysconfig/console
EOF

and

cat > /etc/profile << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile

# export LANG=<ll>_<CC>.<charmap><@modifiers> translates to:

export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1

# End /etc/profile
EOF

simples! 😉

hope this helps
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