From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 07:29:56 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 C2F5D10656B0 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (mx0.hoeg.nl [IPv6:2001:7b8:613:100::211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857CB8FC16 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6D331CF34; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:29:55 +0200 From: Ed Schouten To: Horst =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III Message-ID: <20090715072955.GV48776@hoeg.nl> References: <4A5C9CE2.6060801@free.fr> <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XIWZaXmfL68n6vAq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) 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 07:29:57 -0000 --XIWZaXmfL68n6vAq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Horst, * Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III 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 WWW: http://80386.nl/ --XIWZaXmfL68n6vAq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpdhXMACgkQ52SDGA2eCwURMwCaA2JLdsgx6wKkT/Ig+Lidl3g5 qeYAnihjI0tnCpmUo/XzCTmHj7+4SNjW =alRH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XIWZaXmfL68n6vAq--