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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:45:42 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>
Cc:        Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mail Lists <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Syscons and termcap
Message-ID:  <20101109174542.GM2054@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikdrszg4F_zPhCAb3=Hvr28mtfzi8TU3j0LwT_X@mail.gmail.com>
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* 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.
>=20
> 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.

> 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.

	http://80386.nl/pub/syscons-utf8.txt

Greetings,
--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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