Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:29:29 +0300 From: Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mail Lists <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Syscons and termcap Message-ID: <AANLkTimbrk=Eqfx%2BiCOWOriHgWU%2BrGZDqutsWwJgZk=%2B@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 9 November 2010 20:45, 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. > >> The only thing i cannot do here is to type chars with accent like =C3=A1= =C3=A9 >> 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 =C3=AB, the keybo= ard > 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. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://80386.nl/pub/syscons-utf8.txt > > Greetings, > -- > =C2=A0Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> > =C2=A0WWW: http://80386.nl/ > Thanks Ed, I'll move back to CONS25 before I can load codepage into kernel. I don't like to always see question marks instread normal characters in SC_PIXEL_MODE. PS: I prefer kernel console driver for some reasons.
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