Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | | Subject | Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:26:16 -0500 |
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On Saturday 11 December 2004 16:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Indeed is weird. Are you sure you keyboard is generating an UTF-8 >>enconded "ö"? Just check it with echo: >> >>$ echo -n ö | od -t x1 >> >>0000000 c3 b6 >>0000002 > >Yes it does generate 0xC3B6 (otherwise it would show up as garbage, > because it would not be utf8-compliant if it only output 0xF6)
Which is exactly (0xF6) what I'm getting. Kernel version 2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.32-18
As an american, I've often wondered how to go about getting those accented characters out of a std american keyboard. I used to be able to get all those accented and other stuffs out of my amiga's keyboard, stuff like the Beta sign and so on. No can do now, and I miss it.
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