CHARSET (1)

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

The linux console has 2 slots for charsets, labeled G0 and G1 . charset changes the slot in use by the current VT to either G0 or G1 , 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 specifying user , or ask a new ACM to be loaded from a file into the user slot, by specifying a filename.

You will note that, although each VT has its own slot settings, there is only one user-defined ACM for all the VTs. That is, whereas you can have tty1 using G0=cp437 and G1=vt100 , at the same time as tty2 using G0=iso01 and G1=iso02 (user-defined), you cannot have at the same time tty1 using iso02 and tty2 using iso03 . This is a limitation of the linux kernel.

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

You'll find filterm (1) in the konwert (1) package, by Marcin Kowalczyk, which is available from http://qrczak.home.ml.org/ .

OPTIONS

-v

be verbose. charset will then print what it does as it does it.

BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

- consolechars (8) - - unicode_start (1) - filterm(1)

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