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Re: Using UTF-8 console on Linux
Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> 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
>
Could you please point me to where the patch is located ?
> 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.
>
No change in my setup. I have a few questions though:
- That has to be non-unicode? Or it doesn't matters ?
- I hope it should also work with 8859-15
- I suppose that hu from loadkeys is your keymap ( pt-latin1/9 for me ) ?
- Just to be on the safe side: I do not have locale installed. Is it
needed ?
>
> 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.
>
I assume you meant /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_utf8
I didn't knew that. Anyway, I tested it and it didn't work. I always
need the echo.
>
>
> bye,
>
Thanks,
> Egmont
>
Rui
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