Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:36:44PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote: > > >> In my "quest", I'd like to use UTF-8 in all consoles. I almost did >> it, except for a little detail: I cannot use any kind of accents with >> any of my letters. Here is what I do >> >> loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.winkeys >> loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.latin1.add >> > > Composing characters don't work with utf-8, but a patch exsts (not tested by > me). It was mentioned last week on kernel list: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118531371404736&w=2 > Could you please point me to where the patch is located ? > Standalone accents should work, but you may need to pass a -u/--unicode > option to loadkeys. (Not mentioned in loadkeys manual, but printed by > loadkeys --help.) > > I'm using something like this; this should work work you too: > echo -en '\033%G' > kbd_mode -u > setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2 > loadkeys -u hu > If you press the keys, some accented vowels should appear. > No change in my setup. I have a few questions though: - That has to be non-unicode? Or it doesn't matters ? - I hope it should also work with 8859-15 - I suppose that hu from loadkeys is your keymap ( pt-latin1/9 for me ) ? - Just to be on the safe side: I do not have locale installed. Is it needed ?
> > Furthermore, brand new in 2.6.22: there's a file called default_utf8 (or > something similar) somewhere under /proc, echo 1 to it and your newly > allocated or reseted terminals will automatically be UTF-8 so you won't need > that \033%G. > I assume you meant /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_utf8 I didn't knew that. Anyway, I tested it and it didn't work. I always need the echo. > > > bye, > Thanks, > Egmont > Rui > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > > > > -- Cumprimentos *Rui Santos* Dep. Testes *GrupoPIE Portugal, S.A.* Tel: +351 252 290 600 Fax: +351 252 290 601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: www.grupopie.com <http://www.grupopie.com/> /WinREST /EVERYWHERE -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
