* Rifat Albayrak;
Do a ctrl+alt+F2, you will be at a console. Log on to this console. You're at rifatal@oaktree for instance. This is the console I am talking about. (Maybe I should have said 'Text Console' to be easily understood) Now type Ğ or ğ. You will not get a Ğ or ğ. You will get a sign similar to = sign but with three lines instead of two. Type letter Ü, no problem But type letter Ş, you will get a little square with inside filled... And so on.
OK check the following /etc/sysconfig/keyboard KEYTABLE=trq.map.gz ( assuming you are using Turkish Q keyboard) COMPOSETABLE="winkeys shiftctrl" YAST_KEYBOARD="turkish" /etc/sysconfig/console CONSOLE_FONT="lat5-16.psfu" CONSOLE_UNICODEMAP="" CONSOLE_ENCODING="ISO-8859-9" (see my notes below) CONSOLE_SCREENMAP="" /etc/sysconfig/language If you want to have the whole system in tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 then DEFAULT_LANGUAGE="tr_TR.ISO-8859-9" (see my notes below) RC_LANG="tr_TR.ISO-8859-9" I am using UTF-8 environment so the following is different CONSOLE_ENCODING="UTF-8" Also rather then playing with /etc/syconfig/language variables I have the following under $HOME/.profile export LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 export LC_MESSAGES=en_US ( I want the messages to be in English) export LC_TIME=POSIX ( same with time as above) export LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8
So, Turkish characters I am having trouble with are:Ğ,ğ,İ,ı (no problem with i or I)
Probably you have a problem with "Ş" "ş" (S Cedilla). Try with the above to see if the problems are solved. Of course remember to run SuseConfig for the changes to be affective and logout & login
Now go back Xwindow system with alt+F7. You are in Xwindows and most applications will work fine (read or type). Mozilla reads and write Turkish characters and so does the mail and news clients I use on Xwindows allright. But Xwindows is not completely trouble free either. For instance, rxvt and xterm and aterm won't type above mentioned characters Ğğİ and ı at all.
Xterm should not have an issue however a problem free (almost) terminal program is "mlterm" Just to be sure you have the correct locale in an xterm (or gnome terminal whatever) type locale toganm@earth:~> locale LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE=tr_TR.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="tr_TR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="tr_TR.UTF-8" also try "locale charmap" toganm@earth:~> locale charmap UTF-8 If you have set your LANG to tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 then the locale charmap output will be "ISO-8859-9"
On both methods I tried to modify, boot messages said it was loading this font but still no YUMUŞAK G anyway
Try the above and let's see what is happening ps: No To or CC or BCC is necessarry as I am already receiving the mail from the mailing list -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx