Dear Students,

There is a discussion going on about the Turkish characters. You all cannot print such characters (þ ç ü ð ý etc). Though I mentioned that it is smth about the terminal itself and will not bother your programs you are still worried. So let;s end this.

So here is the procedure.
I guess you all did change the 
KEYBOARD="us"
section to 
KEYBOARD="trq"
in the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

if you did not do that, you may do 
loadkeys trq 
and get the same result (for this session though)
you have to update the console settings too (the black screen you are using :) ) 
this is what you need to do to see the right character on your monitor.
first visit
ftp://ftp.gelecek.com.tr/pub/turkce
and download the file turkish.tgz

I will also place it on our website too ( and this mail)
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/courses/cmpe230/common/turkish.tgz
then unzip the file in linux by doing
tar -xzvf turkish.tgz
(this will create a directory named turkish and place the files there)
then copy all the files beginning with "lat" to the directory /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
(you can do this by "cp turkish/lat* /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/" )
and last step is
setfont lat5u-16
command.

And you are done. Have fun with your turkish characters.
Watch out that this is valid for one session (between login and logout)
If you want to use Turkish  during all your time in linux then add these lines to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local
setfont latin5u-16
loadkeys trq.map.gz
(if you set KEYBOARD="trq" then second line is not needed, they both do the same)

if anything goes wrong (or I wrote something wrong myself) then please e-mail your problem to the list

TA
rabun
P.S I guess most of you have problems connecting to net via Linux. So one more addition, try to get the file on windows and place it on a floppy disk. Later copy the file to linux. If you still ask "How?" here is the answer
I assume the file turkish.tgz is in the diskette.
as root do
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy 
if it fails and says something about not recognizing filesystem then do either
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
or
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

after that
cp /mnt/floppy/turkish.tgz /root/
will copy the file and you may start with the procedure

(I guess this was a really long post script but somehow I have a feeling that it will be needed :)