Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:12:04 -0200 From: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mail Lists <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Syscons and termcap Message-ID: <AANLkTi=_KqR78Ay3vnUSTw1g6LZ4cWtF_t3FT=1HedSL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101109174542.GM2054@hoeg.nl> References: <AANLkTi=Sd-VpqcBGHy%2BNATC9qL=YY2CcJ1aQ8O3XBk07@mail.gmail.com> <20101109100319.GV2054@hoeg.nl> <AANLkTikdrszg4F_zPhCAb3=Hvr28mtfzi8TU3j0LwT_X@mail.gmail.com> <20101109174542.GM2054@hoeg.nl>
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > * Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>, 20101109 17:08: >> Well, few weeks ago I moved from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on my Xorg >> environment, and after reading this I decided to make a test. >> >> I rebuilt my 9.0-current (r215031) with option TEKEN_UTF8 in kernel >> config, and after configure my syscons to use cp850-* fonts i can >> see UTF-8 chars properly \o/ > > Well, the point here is that it just performs some really hackish > translation to CP437, not CP850, on the output path. It is really not > robust. Copy-pasting is also broken because of it, because it pastes > CP437 characters. OK, i changed my fonts to cp437. >> The only thing i cannot do here is to type chars with accent like =E1=E9 >> on console, because it seems to don't respect deadkeys, when I >> press ' the char ' is show and never wait the next char to compose >> a new one when necessary. Is it a knwon issue or i'm doing >> something wrong? > > This is a known issue, since there is no translation from Unicode code > points to UTF-8 sequences. In other words, if you press =EB, the keyboard > layer will properly send a 235 to Syscons, but instead of encoding it as > 0xC3 0xA9, will just emit a single byte, having value 0xE9. > > Maybe a patch like this could already get that working, but it's just a > quick hack. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://80386.nl/pub/syscons-utf8.txt It had no effect on console but, i don't know why, screwed up my Xorg keymap, some meta keys (Mod4) stop working even if I run a setxkbmap like this: /usr/local/bin/setxkbmap -rules xorg -symbols "pc(pc105)+sun_vndr/usb(sun_usb)+pc(pc105)+us(intl)" Now i back old kernel and everything is working fine. It's not something I need, but would be nice to have console working with UTF-8 and accent keys :) --=20 Renato Botelho
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