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Message-ID: <20070601143055.GD3807@zip.com.au>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 00:30:55 +1000
From: CaT <cat@....com.au>
To: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel utf-8 handling
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> This said, I know that the console will give me no problems
> regarding character representantion (heck, I'm pretty sure that I will
> be able to use even the same font I'm using right now in the console if
> I get the proper unicode map), but probably will give me problems when
> *entering* characters. I've read that the kernel handles accented chars,
> and things like '?' (ntilde) because it assumes that any composed
> character (composed using dead keys, for example) is in the latin1
> range. While this is not a perfect behaviour, it will work for me.
Hmmm. I've not yet played with moving to utf-8 but would
man console_codes
be of help to you?
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