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Re: Using UTF-8 console on Linux
Στις 31-07-2007, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 17:56 +0200, ο/η Egmont Koblinger
έγραψε:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:36:44PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote:
>
> > In my "quest", I'd like to use UTF-8 in all consoles. I almost did
> > it, except for a little detail: I cannot use any kind of accents with
> > any of my letters. Here is what I do
> >
> > loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.winkeys
> > loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.latin1.add
>
> Composing characters don't work with utf-8, but a patch exsts (not tested by
> me). It was mentioned last week on kernel list:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118531371404736&w=2
There has been a discussion on this at this list, a summary of which is
at
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@xxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04900.html
Hope this helps,
Simos
> Standalone accents should work, but you may need to pass a -u/--unicode
> option to loadkeys. (Not mentioned in loadkeys manual, but printed by
> loadkeys --help.)
>
> I'm using something like this; this should work work you too:
> echo -en '\033%G'
> kbd_mode -u
> setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2
> loadkeys -u hu
> If you press the keys, some accented vowels should appear.
>
>
> Furthermore, brand new in 2.6.22: there's a file called default_utf8 (or
> something similar) somewhere under /proc, echo 1 to it and your newly
> allocated or reseted terminals will automatically be UTF-8 so you won't need
> that \033%G.
>
>
>
> bye,
>
> Egmont
>
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