Re: UTF8 mode

[David Gómez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rodolfo ;),

> , and problems arise with some latin characters, such as à, è, ù, etc.,
> which are not input,

Linux kernel currently has no support to input UTF-8 composed characters.
Look in the archives for the last weeks and you'll see a patch from
Chris (i don't remember the URL ;)) which you need to apply to the kernel
to get composed UTF-8 characters.

> which are not correctly displayed:
> in particular, man pages are messed up.

Yep, i've noticed. I guess they're enconded in latin1 and i doubt
that groff suppports UTF-8, but i didn't checked it.

regards,

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David Gómez                                      Jabber ID: davidge@xxxxxxxxxx

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