unicode_start on second and following consoles

[Danilo Šegan]

Today at 11:53, "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot at shot.pl> wrote:

> Well, the following works for me:
>
> 1. `sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales` and check sr_YU.UTF-8 at cyrillic
> 2. `unicode_stop` followed by `unicode_start LatArCyrHeb-16`
> 3. `LANG=sr_YU.UTF-8 at cyrillic date` (this prints the date in cyrillic)
>
> Since this moment, the console I try the above on preserves its
> state, I can switch to X and back. I'm using 800x600 consoles
> in 24 bit colour mode (by adding vga=789 to the kernel options
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst) and the same resolution/depth in X.

Interesting to hear that it works for you.  I'll look into it a bit
later (I'm using text-mode console, and you say that it works as
well). 

Perhaps this is a problem with my hardware instead.

> Cheers,
> -- Shot (please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to ubuntu-devel already)

Then set your Mail-Followup-To accordingly (look at my mails for
examples).  I am not going to track who is subscribed and who is not
(except this one time ;), sorry!

Cheers,
Danilo