Huh, faster than light:

loadkeys pl
setfont LatArCyrHeb-19 -m 8859-2

and maybe:

export LC_ALL="pl_PL"

was the solution.
Cheers,
Luke

2008/5/19 Lukasz Jastrzebski <luke.jastrzebski@???>:
> Hi all!
>
> Since week or so I'm trying to force 2.5.2 to switch locale to Polish.
> Switching XFCE was easy, but translation of interface of ROX-filer is
> complete in about 30%. No problem, I've managed to switch localisation
> (keyboard, encoding and so on) without switching interface's language.
> I've managed also to fine tune XTerm to display letters with tails,
> slashes, dots and so on. Default font didn't display the appropriate
> letters (at least I was unable to force XTerm to do it), so, with help
> of xfontsel, I switched to font named "clean" - works fine for me.
>
> That was the easy part. I'm stuck trying to change console settings.
>
> Is there any way to change console (the terminals, not the X, XFCE or
> XTerm) font and encoding/localisation? Where are the configuration
> files? (where comes it's structure from? is it similar to any distro?)
> And what is the name of "clean" font in iso8859-2 encoding in this
> configuration files? (This is bitmap font - but will it work in
> console? Where are the other console fonts?)
> Maybe there is some boot-time cheatcode to set consoles locale (I saw
> one - works in 100% under Freesbie)?
>
> Any clues?
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
> ---
> XTerm told me to "Use the force, Luke" - believe it? But if... with
> fists or head shot?
>