Hi jrb and all.
I thought I had reported not being able to type any accented character in CLI -- and
obviously not in the joe or MP editors. Reviewing the pages of this thread, it seems
that I haven't.
In any case, please find the solution attached. Directory /usr/share/X11/locale is
missing in this upupbb32-light, and that is the cause of the console not accepting
accented characters when your system locale is not English.
Follows the procedure to regain the capacity of writing accented characters in
console and console apps:
-- Download the attached in a convenient and safe place;
-- Move or copy it to /usr/share/X11;
-- Once you have it there, either
----- open a console in that directory and type
OR
----- use SFR's UExtract or
----- the Pupzip utility
to unzip it.
That's it.
I have no merit in finding this solution. I was tipped off by somebody in an
Arch Linux
forum thread who had a similar problem, although for a different reason. ( That
ArchLinux user had used Bleachbit to do a clean-up of his files, and Bleachbit
somehow erased the locale.dir file in /usr/share/X11/locale... Moral of this story: do not
use Bleachbit! )
Please note -- The attached locale directory from peebee's BionicPup32 provides the
en_US.utf-8 locale only. ( I.e. and internationalized US locale, that provides accented
characters for occasional use. ) I still need to find a source for the fr_CA.utf-8 and other
accented locales. I'll keep you posted.
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Since I'm on a bug-squashing roll...
When I rebooted upupbb32-light to do the above correction, the Pup absolutely refused
to load my customized PuppuPin: on boot-up, it keeps providing jrb's default PuppyPin.
jrb, can you please tell your Pup not to do that anymore?
TIA.
( Screen capture attached, BTW. )
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Enough bug-squashing for today!
IHTH. Tah-dah.