From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 18:12:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D391065673 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:12:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rbgarga@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C098FC15 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb13 with SMTP id 13so293061wwb.31 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:12:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sU2ZsRtOAW2stbUl42SnS7q2ek50InC24PoFtdVDa2U=; b=KXwuUAVgWrl4EY0hOrhGzwtZqNFDhkydmmBOQlG+yuxeU8ysCwmHGGHNXDeqJaWVGr 0lzXSlaVIB0xblE95yAwBH1lna4fAGZFZiJO962f1UFGoD/KolmFmMuKLgLQNVRxsjA4 Z+QEJ3wJc0aXU/FOTWGIWAFE91IUqlr27zSlM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=l3xuPIApuuRsr3Atylm9LdEoZJUa8MUlGQ6fm6TzVIKoMYdxk41er178ScGHyxp6zw 2SuV4DwsBVFvUpn4dKgj2G0Nm34mQ2Nj+Dxex3MiYZ2anRXRb7xoNPx+XTQUMUZCE7C7 /wXiyxzQQny0mWzuqtGbO/JPKnrtQdGpbPSyc= Received: by 10.227.134.142 with SMTP id j14mr7070200wbt.228.1289326346793; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:12:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.182.10 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101109174542.GM2054@hoeg.nl> References: <20101109100319.GV2054@hoeg.nl> <20101109174542.GM2054@hoeg.nl> From: Renato Botelho Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:12:04 -0200 Message-ID: To: Ed Schouten Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Eir Nym , FreeBSD Mail Lists Subject: Re: Syscons and termcap X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:12:30 -0000 On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Renato Botelho , 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