Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:06:57 +0100 | From | David Gómez <> | Subject | Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? |
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Hi Simon ;),
On Dec 12 at 10:08:22, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > Aaahh ;), you've should said that before. The whole problem with the > > kernel is with the compose tables. If you have a native key for "ö" in > > your keyboard you'll not have problems. I can type for example a 'n > > with tilde' in my keyboard because is too is a native key, but for > > accentuated characters, for utf-8 output is neccesary to apply the patch :-/ > > And that's the whole issue. > > As soon as the kernel is in Unicode mode for the console, currently > there is no way to input accented characters through a dead key > (composed).
True.
> Some years back when 8-bit encodings where used there was no problem, > however now all distros are broken with regards to this.
I guess that some distros use their own patches, like it seems with SuSE, but it's something that it's broken in the linux console and should be fixed.
> I do not know what is the next step to consider adding the patch.
Submitting the patch to lkml to discuss about its possible inclusion would be a good start. I don't know who's the console maintainer, Vojtech Pavlik perhaps?
Regards,
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