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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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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:
>=20
> 	options TEKEN_UTF8
> 	options TEKEN_XTERM

Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE?=20

> 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:
>=20
> 	http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png

Shiny.=20

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