Re: Using UTF-8 console on Linux

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:16:18AM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 
> That should be 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/console/uk-utf.map
> 
 Indeed it should.  Thanks.  Heh, I knew there was a reason why I
couldn't sleep tonight.
> The keymap references a couple of files, unicode.map and compose.latin1.
> Are they part of a distribution of console-data (using Ubuntu)?
> 
 No, they are from kbd-1.12 - keymaps/i386/include/unicode.map (that
gets gzipped when installed) and keymaps/include/compose.latin1.

 A quick test on etch suggests it will use compose.latin1.inc.gz from
console-data, plus unicode.map from kbd, but the result doesn't work.
It doesn't recognise quotedblebase (although it is coming from one of
its own include files, for U+201e), makes some assumptions about the
non-latin1 character values (assumptions look ok), returns status 0,
but doesn't work.  Commenting out U+201e gets rid of the message but
makes no difference - dead accents display when followed by a space,
like ^ [ AltGr with ' then space ] but not otherwise - oh, they do -
ô but there is a need to key two spaces afterwards so AltGr with ;
then 'a' then two spaces gives á - less than useful.  The AltGr keys
work ok for latin1 characters like «þ» but I seem to be getting
garbage for the non-latin1 characters on AltGr (my font shows an
inverse question mark although I can see the desired characters in
some pre-prepared text in another tty).  The input-by-number part
is definitely not working correctly for non-ascii values.

 So, only works with kbd.  Sorry.

> During the last attempt to get compose support in the kernel at LKML,
> the response was that the kernel console support was supposed to provide
> facilities for emergency usage only (serial debugger, access to fsck,
> etc). Therefore, the patch described at
> http://www.advogato.org/person/simosx/diary.html?start=2
> although it solved the problem, got rejected. (Also the patch was
> somewhat of a hack in the way it solved the problem).
> 
> Simos
> 
 Thanks for the link.

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