On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 04:41:39PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 20:42:04 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:17:18PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: > > > I dig into. The "tput op" does not do what is expected. > > > > > > The our 8.x kernel series have added following options: > > > > > > # UTF-8 console support > > > options VESA > > > options SC_PIXEL_MODE # add support for the raster text mode > > > options TEKEN_UTF8 # UTF-8 output handling > > > options TEKEN_XTERM # xterm-style terminal emulation > > > > > > But the TERM settings is not xterm, but still cons25. > > > It suffices to change cons25 into xterm in src/init.c > > > and debian/share/inittab.kfreebsd-gnu in source package sysvinit. > > > > Thanks for investigating. > > > > It's probably the way to go. xterm also brings partial support for > > UTF-8, and we are likely to deprecate (remove ?) 7.x kernel for squeeze. > > I did some minimal checking, by changing TERM to xterm on the console > and it seems at least arrow keys stop working correctly on ncurses > programs. >
I confirm the issue here, so it seems we have to revert the options in the kernel. That's a pitty because the goal was to use the UTF-8 terminal to be able to have non-english language in debian-installer. The alternative would be to do like on GNU/Linux, that is using bogl-bterm, however someone has to port it first. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
