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

[monday66]

Thank you very much for your effort guys!!!
I can't test this right now because i'm away for vacations, i will test it in 4 days and post feedback.
Thanks again!!

[monday66]

Sadly, i encountered this:

The "???????????????" is a directory with Greek Characters.



I got the font from a debian distro (/usr/share/consolefonts directory)

@tinypoodle where did you get your psf font?

[tinypoodle]

Sadly, i encountered this:

The "" is a directory with Greek Characters.

I'd reckon then you might likely be able to cd to that dir

I got the font from a debian distro (/usr/share/consolefonts directory)

@tinypoodle where did you get your psf font?

See Reply #10 & #14...

[monday66]

Yeah i saw the link that leads to http://packages.debian.org/sid/console-setup-linux
I didn't know how to download the psf font from there, so i got it from a distro that i have installed, ( it's the same font, isn't it? ).

[tinypoodle]

tc@box:~$ md5sum /tmp/Greek-Fixed13.psf
b4d5aa18206416a4d3e114e285b1504d  /tmp/Greek-Fixed13.psf

[monday66]

As i thought, it's the same.
root@nexus:~/Desktop# md5sum Greek-Fixed13.psf
b4d5aa18206416a4d3e114e285b1504d  Greek-Fixed13.psf

EDIT: By the way, did you reboot after you loaded the font?

[tinypoodle]

Uhm, not sure why exactly you would ask this.

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tc@box:~$ last
tc       tty1                          Mon Dec  9 06:44   still logged in
root     tty1                          Sun Nov 10 23:56 - 06:44 (28+06:48)

wtmp begins Sun Nov 10 23:56:03 2013

Rather to the contrary I logged out and in again on tty1 in the hope of getting rid of the loaded font, i.e. getting my usual consolefont back, but no such luck... =/

[monday66]

I'm asking this because i boot microcore from a USB which is not a persistent installation.
after reboot everything is gone.

I can only some files persistent by remastering microcore.

[tinypoodle]

Persistence is not a requirement to execute 'loadfont'.
Of course you need access to a font in order to load it, but as my earlier post implies, that works with using /tmp.

[monday66]

Ok, i will test it again under /tmp
Also how did you change keyboard's language to write the dir "Αρχείο"?
Shift+Alt doesn't seem to work there.

[Juanito]

I'm asking this because i boot microcore from a USB which is not a persistent installation.
after reboot everything is gone.

I can only some files persistent by remastering microcore.

Assuming you're booting from a usb stick, you can the backup function to restore files on reboot

[tinypoodle]

Also how did you change keyboard's language to write the dir "Arxei'o"?

I never claimed having done so, what I did was I copied the word from your post and pasted it to Rox Filer's function "New -> Directory" to create the dir.
In order to cd to the dir I tested with both shell tab complete - which might be less easy if there were any other entries present within the same parent dir - and copy and paste output from 'ls'.

[monday66]

I tried again and got it working properly, thanks!!
I can now mark the thread as Solved.

[Rich]

Hi monday66
Maybe you could give a step by step summary of what you had to do in case someone else runs into this
problem.

[monday66]

Yeah, you are right Rich.   :-)
I didn't do anything special, i just followed the steps TinyPoodle and Juanito showed me.
But i had a hard time using Greek-Fixed13.psf font,
so just downloaded more fonts like Greek-Fixed16.psf and one of them worked, that's all.