Re: Using UTF-8 console on Linux

[Rui Santos <rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:32:37PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote:
>
>   
>> That thread is from early 2005... Does it still applies to the current
>> kernel ?
>>     
>
> I don't know.
>
>   
>> You use lat2-16 fonf. That means that it does not have an utf8 mapping.
>> Usually the ones that end with 'u', like lat9u-16.psfu.gz already have
>> it. Am I correct ?
>>     
>
> setfont automatically adds the extension. This file is actially
> lat2-16.psfu, so it does contain Unicode mapping.
>
>   
>> I retrieved it from my own system. I have pt-latin1 and
>> compose.latin1.add with all includes.
>>     
>
> Okay, but do you know what keyboard layout these files are supposed to
> implement?
Yes.
>  I bet you do have expectations like "this or that key should
> produce this or that letter". Or rather in the reverse way: "I need these
> accented letters, and they should be accessible by these particular keys or
> key sequences...". So I'm still curious: do you really plan to use dead keys
> or combining keys, or just simple keys for accented letters?
>   

I was planning to use dead keys in combination with the simple keys to
produce the accented key I want. If possible, all of them.
>   
>>> Just for curiosity: please try the exact commands I gave you above, then run
>>> the command "cat" and press the "main" letters on your keyboard. You should
>>> see something like this:
>>>   0123456789öüó
>>>   qwertzuiopőú
>>>   asdfghjkléáű
>>>   íyxcvbnm,.-
>>> Do you get these accented vowels there?
>>>   
>>>       
>> No, I do not get any accented characters.
>>     
>
> Now this is strange, and at this moment I have no idea where to look at.
>
> Did the commands all succeed? Are you root? Are you executing these from the
> real console (not from mc, screen, su...)? Please confirm that you really
> typed these letters to the command "cat".
>   
Sorry. It does work. I was issuing the command on bash, and not on cat.
So it works :)

> What happens when you hit those keys that are supposed to print accented
> letters? Is simply this keystroke ignored? Or a question mark printed? Or
> what else?
>
>
>   

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