Greek keyboard layout

[patrikg]

Sorry for asking...but do you start bash ??
Or do you change the default shell to bash ??

And do you install kmaps and what commandline args do you use to enable it.

[andfree]

I changed the default shell to bash, but still greek characters displayed as "?":

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tc@box:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
tc@box:~$ bash
tc@box:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
tc@box:~$ ????????

As regards kmaps, I have installed it:

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tc@box:~$ tce-load -i kmaps
kmaps is already installed!
But I have no idea what commandline args I should use to enable it.

[patrikg]

Try to add

kmap=qwerty/gr
or
kmap=qwerty/gr-pc

to your commandline

And how to modify your commandline, you may read the core book.
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

[curaga]

Did you set up a locale? The default, C, supports just ascii. You need either a Greek locale, or an utf8 locale. See the getlocale.tcz extension.

[andfree]

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tc@box:~$ sudo getlocale.sh
I choose el_GR.UTF-8/UTF-8:

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Now processing... /
Locales installed. Creating extension... cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive': No such file or directory
\

Done. The extension is at /mnt/sda1/tce/optional/mylocale.tcz and in onboot.lst
Reboot with lang=xyz (for example lang=) to start using this.


Press enter to quit.

tc@box:~$ ????????
Or I choose el_GR/ISO-8859-7:

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Now processing... cannot open locale archive "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive": Read-only file system

Locales installed. Creating extension... /

Done. The extension is at /mnt/sda1/tce/optional/mylocale.tcz and in onboot.lst
Reboot with lang=xyz (for example lang=an_ES) to start using this.


Press enter to quit.

tc@box:~$ ????????

And how to modify your commandline, you may read the core book.
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

Sorry, I can't find where it says about it. Any help to find it?

[patrikg]

What platform do you use??
PC
Raspberry PI

If picore edit your config file like this.
I use nano as editor for easiness.
And all text should be at one line...i start nano with -w to disable linewrap.

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tce-load -wi nano.tcz
mount /mnt/mmcblk0p1
sudo nano -w /mnt/mmcblk0p1/cmdline.txt

If PC read "Chapter 10. Bootcodes explained" in book.

[Misalf]

Apart from using bash, an appropriate locale and a capable terminal emulator, it may also be necessary to configure the terminal emulator to use a font which provides requested characters.
--
Note,  tce-load -wi ...  doesn't load the extension if it's already present locally.
So  tce-load -w ... ; tce-load -i ...  is more reliable in such cases.

[andfree]

The book says:

If using extlinux, the file is called extlinux.cfg, and the codes are stored in the APPEND line:

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APPEND initrd=/boot/core.gz quiet showapps

I don't find an extlinux.cfg, but a /mnt/sda1/tce/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file.

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sudo editor /mnt/sda1/tce/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

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DEFAULT core
LABEL core
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet  waitusb=5:UUID="b7c9ae56-0223-4d78-9cfb-9ece1ebe91e2" tce=UUID="b7c9ae56-0223-4d78-9cfb-9ece1ebe91e2"
I change it like this:
 

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DEFAULT core
LABEL core
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet  waitusb=5:UUID="b7c9ae56-0223-4d78-9cfb-9ece1ebe91e2" tce=UUID="b7c9ae56-0223-4d78-9cfb-9ece1ebe91e2" kmap=qwerty/gr lang=el.GR
I reboot, but greek characters are still displayed as "?" in lxterminal.

[Misalf]

I can't get lxterminal to display Greek characters either. Not even German umlauts.
URxvt using Bash works.

[andfree]

I installed urxvt. But greeks aren't displayed there at all and the cursor doesn't move at all when I type greeks.

[Misalf]

You may need to set a different font (f.e. Monospace).
To test, run

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urxvt -fn xft:Monospace:pixelsize=11
Then run

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bash
and switch to your keyboard layout.

You can make font settings for urxvt permanent by adding the following to  ~/.Xdefaults .

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URxvt*font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=11


[andfree]

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tc@box:~$ urxvt -fn xft:Monospace:pixelsize=11
urxvt: default locale unavailable, check LC_* and LANG variables. Continuing.

[Juanito]

Do you get something like this with the "locale" command:

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$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


[andfree]

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tc@box:~$ bash
tc@box:~$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=el.GR
LC_CTYPE="el.GR"
LC_NUMERIC="el.GR"
LC_TIME="el.GR"
LC_COLLATE="el.GR"
LC_MONETARY="el.GR"
LC_MESSAGES="el.GR"
LC_PAPER="el.GR"
LC_NAME="el.GR"
LC_ADDRESS="el.GR"
LC_TELEPHONE="el.GR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="el.GR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="el.GR"
LC_ALL=
tc@box:~$


[Juanito]

When you made mylocale.tcz locally, did you set your "lang=" bootcode to "el.GR" or "el_GR.UTF-8"?