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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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello Horst, * Horst Günther Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> wrote: > 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: > > > > options TEKEN_UTF8 > > options TEKEN_XTERM > > Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE? 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. > > 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: > > > > http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png > > Shiny. Thanks! -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpdhXMACgkQ52SDGA2eCwURMwCaA2JLdsgx6wKkT/Ig+Lidl3g5 qeYAnihjI0tnCpmUo/XzCTmHj7+4SNjW =alRH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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