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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:32:01 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console?
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In the last episode (Feb 23), a said:
> Can I use UTF-8 encoding at the FreeBSD console? 

No; since text consoles can only display 256 characters at a time
anyway, it wouldn't do much good.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com