[SOLVED] Microcore Doesn't See Directories with Characters from Other Languages!

[monday66]

Hello there, my problem is simple.
I have some directories on my computer that are named with Greek characters,
i want to just navigate there but microcore doesn't see them!

How can i make something like

Code: (bash) [Select]

cd Αρχείο
and get there?

Thanks for your attention guys!!

[monday66]

Is it so hard for everyone to answer such a simple question?

[Juanito]

does the font you're using support greek characters?

[monday66]

I'm using the default font and No, it doesn't.
Unfortunately as i said the directories with Greek characters are invisible to microcore.

Also, I tried to use the getlocale.tcz that produces the appropriate mylocale.tcz for the language i want,
i found many languages that i could select but Greek was missing. So dead end again.

[Juanito]

You could try searching the forums on "utf-8"?

[monday66]

Ok, i will search a little more, i will post again tomorrow to let you know if i could fix it.

[Juanito]

I'm guessing you'll need a bitmap font that supports greek characters if you're working from the console or terminal window, but I never tried myself.

[monday66]

Yeah, i'm working from console, what a bitmap font is? i have never heard of them..
And how can i install one?

[Juanito]

There's something pretty cryptic here:

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:fonts_cn?s[]=utf&s[]=8

google should be able to help with how to install greek bitmap fonts

[monday66]

So, yesterday i followed the instructions i found in this thread http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=3632.0
from "Michael Wells". I installed the dejavu-fonts-ttf-tcz package but i came up with nothing again.

I will search on how to install bitmap fonts this time.

[Juanito]

Maybe if you took something like Greek-Fixed13.psf.gz from:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-setup-linux

and then: "sudo loadfont < /path/to/Greek-Fixed13.psf" things might work?

[tinypoodle]

I'd doubt any font would change anything when files are invisible, if a lack of font would be the only issue, then whichever char is not available would likely be replaced by a placeholder.

What can play a role are filesystem specific mount options, but you have so far not specified the filesystem in question.

[monday66]

Filesystem specific mount options? What do you mean?
do you know how can i fix it?

[tinypoodle]

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

[tinypoodle]

Maybe if you took something like Greek-Fixed13.psf.gz from:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-setup-linux

and then: "sudo loadfont < /path/to/Greek-Fixed13.psf" things might work?

Following that works for me as expected to display otherwise gibberish fonts correctly.



Now if I only knew how to get my initial consolefont back after that... 

Edit: Above procedure broke gpm, pointer no longer moving to bottom area of console - restarting the gpm daemon fixed that.