From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 03:20:25 2009 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 EB457106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:20:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from fallbackmx09.syd.optusnet.com.au (fallbackmx09.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C138F8FC16 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:20:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horst@sxemacs.org) Received: from mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.189]) by fallbackmx09.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n6F1KihS013207 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:20:44 +1000 Received: from [114.76.235.20] (c114-76-235-20.farfl3.nsw.optusnet.com.au [114.76.235.20]) (authenticated sender horst.burkhardt) by mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n6F1Jqd4009022; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:19:53 +1000 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III To: Ed Schouten In-Reply-To: <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> References: <4A5C9CE2.6060801@free.fr> <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ECzCBmJ+qX6fx6emaDfk" Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:20:41 +1000 Message-Id: <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.0 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can! 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: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:20:26 -0000 --=-ECzCBmJ+qX6fx6emaDfk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:55 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > FreeBSD already supports UTF-8 when using X11, etc. The console driver > is restricted to 8-bit character sets. When you use FreeBSD > HEAD/8.0, you can add the following to your kernel config: >=20 > options TEKEN_UTF8 > options TEKEN_XTERM Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE?=20 > After that, be sure to replace `cons25' with `xterm' in /etc/ttys. This > will allow you to use UTF-8 on the console. The kernel will use a table > to remap all Unicode characters to CP437 (the default VGA font), so it's > practically useless. Is there an equivalent of deadkeys or the Compose key in FreeBSD consoles? :\ > It will probably still take a very long time before it's finished, but I > can already show you this screenshot I made the other day: >=20 > http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png Shiny.=20 --=-ECzCBmJ+qX6fx6emaDfk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpdLukACgkQRtTtv0BbTe5SAQCgwKGC4IIMPEuL4a/1l6IYQJJP gq4An2RMdSI6VeUYPYrTjsk2b1mkcxaT =Sxx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ECzCBmJ+qX6fx6emaDfk--