Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:20:41 +1000 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can! Message-ID: <1247620841.8056.14.camel@horst-tla> In-Reply-To: <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> References: <4A5C9CE2.6060801@free.fr> <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? > 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: > > http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png Shiny. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpdLukACgkQRtTtv0BbTe5SAQCgwKGC4IIMPEuL4a/1l6IYQJJP gq4An2RMdSI6VeUYPYrTjsk2b1mkcxaT =Sxx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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