Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2001-12-14 14:53 UTC:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> 
> > Hi all. I'm wondering two things about using UTF-8 on the console, where
> > I spend a significant portion, though by no means the majority, of my
> > computer time:
> > 
> > - 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 (?).

By the way, my current plan is that as soon as emacs, bash and readline
all work satisfactorily under en_US.UTF-8, to pursuade Linus et al. that
the Linux console should start in UTF-8 (as opposed to ISO 8859-1 at the
moment), and that (just as a symbolic gesture) at least one of the
kernel boot messages shall contain a few non-ASCII characters in UTF-8
(probably some block graphics from CP435).

Proposals for interesting UTF-8 kernel boot messages welcome.

Markus

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