Displaying non-US characters

[JAS]

 I saw in the FAQ how to set up a non-us keyboard map.
 I want to know how to set up the video to display non-us characters in textmode (not in X).
 

[curaga]

For that, you need a locale (getlocale.tcz) and a console font with your chosen set. Warning: the console fonts are limited, you won't be able to display full utf8 with asian scripts and whatever; IIRC they are limited to 256 glyphs and made for the iso-8859* and similar charsets.