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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:29:55 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Horst =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can!
Message-ID:  <20090715072955.GV48776@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla>
References:  <4A5C9CE2.6060801@free.fr> <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla>

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Hello Horst,

* Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:55 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
>=20
> > 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
>=20
> Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE?=20

Yes.

> > 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.
>=20
> Is there an equivalent of deadkeys or the Compose key in FreeBSD
> consoles? :\

I can't say for sure, but I think not. Input in UTF-8 mode is also
completely broken, because the input layer is not Unicode/UTF-8 aware...

> > 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
>=20
> Shiny.=20

Thanks!

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

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