Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

[Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:23:16PM +0330, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > - What is the cleanest possible way to get the console (all of the
> >   virtual consoles, not just the bootup one) into UTF-8 mode as early as
> >   possible? If it matters, I'm using the Rage 128 framebuffer driver on
> >   x86 Debian sid.
> 
> Maybe putting a ESC%G sequence in your /etc/issue (?).

This does almost everything necessary; however, it does not do the
equivalent of 'kbd_mode -u', which sets the keyboard to UTF-8 mode. I
could write a wrapper around getty that I call from /etc/inittab, but that
seems ugly...I may end up doing that though.

It might also be nice to get unicode going on from early in the bootup
process. Should I put something in the rcS.d directory that sets
everything up unicodely (kbd_mode -u plus ESC%G) ? I wonder if that
would work on all my consoles, or if I'd have to wrap getty as above. I
could also just put something in the /etc/profile, which would satisfy
me since I don't use tcsh..

I guess I was just asking what the best was.

Thank you for your suggestion, though; it's a good one.

> > - I remember hearing about a tool that takes a bdf or some other full
> >   font format and being able to extract any arbitrary set of 512
> >   characters from it and put that set into a console font. Can any of
> >   you point me to it? It would be nice to make various Unicode console
> >   fonts tailored to my tastes.
> 
> It comes with Unicode VGA font, by Dmitry Bolkhovityanov <bolkhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> avalable at http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/

Thanks for the pointer. I'll investigate it when I get a chance.

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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