displaying nonlatin characters

[Björn Gohla]

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in a program of mine i want to display classical greek text, but it just 
shows stars. what do i have to do programmatically as well as 
configurationally to be able to show non latin texts?
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panic ("No CPUs found.  System halted.\n");
        2.4.3 linux/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
pub  1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Björn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltbürger) 
<b.gohla@gmx.de>
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