Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:58:45 +0200 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: Kernel utf-8 handling |
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Hi H. Peter :)
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> dixit: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > (1) I can do <Compose><~><n> just fine on vt > > (2) I can do <ö> just fine on vt too > > (3) And copy+paste them both using GPM too, again w/o probs > > Both of those are in the 0-255 range, though. I thought the issue was > with characters 256+, like ??. At least on my FC6 system that doesn't > work with gpm.
By now, to fully switch to utf-8, I only need to have áéíóúñ and their uppercase counterparts (for people who cannot see the chars, they are the acute accented vowels and the ntilde). I really hope that, in the future, there are a way of fully use Unicode (and I mean the entire range) using framebuffer in console (there probably is an emulator for that job already, I have to check), but for the time being that's enough.
I really don't mind if I have to use an userspace program to have unicode support on the console (the kernel shouldn't mess with encodings, or have utf-8 only; I don't know the current status, that's why I asked), but if the kernel does directly the job in the console driver, that's not bad either.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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