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CHARSET

Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: 10 Aug 1998
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NAME

charset - Set an ACM for use in one of the G0/G1 charset slots.

SYNOPSIS

charset [-v] G0|G1 [cp437|iso01|vt100|user|<acm_name>]

DESCRIPTION

The linux console has 2 slots for charsets, labeledG0andG1.charsetchanges the slot in use by the current VT to eitherG0orG1,and fills the slot either with one of the 3 predefined ACMs(cp437, iso01, vt100)or with a user-defined ACM.

You can ask for the current user-defined ACM by specifyinguser,or ask a new ACM to be loaded from a file into the user slot, byspecifying a filename.

You will note that, although each VT has its own slot settings, thereis only one user-defined ACM for all the VTs. That is, whereas youcan have tty1 using G0=cp437andG1=vt100,at the same time as tty2 usingG0=iso01andG1=iso02(user-defined), youcannothave at the same time tty1 using iso02and tty2 usingiso03.This is a limitation of the linux kernel.

Note that you can emulate such a setting using thefilterm(1)utility, with your console in UTF8-mode, by tellingfiltermto translate screen output on-the-fly to UTF8.

You'll findfilterm(1)in thekonwert(1)package, by Marcin Kowalczyk, which is available fromhttp://qrczak.home.ml.org/.

OPTIONS

-v: be verbose.charsetwill then print what it does as it does it.

BUGS

charsetcannot determine which of the 2 slots is in use at a given time, soyou have to tell him which one you want, even if you don't want tochange to the other one. This is a limitation of the console driver.

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