Re: Using UTF-8 console on Linux

[Rui Santos <rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 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
>   
Thank you for the link
> Hope this helps,
> Simos
>   
Rui

>   
>> 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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>> Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
>> Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
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>>     
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> Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
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