Re: unicode_start

[Damjan <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > OK - this is well-understood, and not something that can be
> > improved in user space. We need a kernel change [..]
> 
> OK..
> 
> But in that case, what is the point --at this moment-- of having
> unicode_start? The keyboard does not generate valid UTF-8 (apart
> from pure ASCII), but only valid UTF-8 can be displayed. So it
> seems that a 'console in UTF-8 mode' does not allow you to read
> your own texts. I must be missing something..

Compose-ing doesn't work in a UTF-8 console (oh how I hoped 2.6 would
solve the console problems) but you can have an alternating keymap in 
UTF-8, like my macedonian ASCII/Cyrillic keymap. Just press altgr to
switch to cyrillic, press win-menu to lock to cyrillic.

check the mk-utf.map file that comes with kbd.


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Damjan Georgievski
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