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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:58:55 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>, FreeBSD, Lists <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Syscons and termcap
Message-ID:  <20101109185855.38586eb2@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:08:01 -0200
Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip stuff from Ed]
> Well, few weeks ago I moved from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on my Xorg
> environment, and after reading this I decided to make a test.
> 
> I rebuilt my 9.0-current (r215031) with option TEKEN_UTF8 in kernel
> config, and after configure my syscons to use cp850-* fonts i can
> see UTF-8 chars properly \o/
> 
> The only thing i cannot do here is to type chars with accent like αι
> on console, because it seems to don't respect deadkeys, when I
> press ' the char ' is show and never wait the next char to compose
> a new one when necessary. Is it a knwon issue or i'm doing
> something wrong?
> 
> I'm using us.iso.kbd
> 

This may seem like a stupid comment, but I'd say that the "iso" does
not imply UTF-8 support.  In fact, there seem to be only ISO or code
page keymaps under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps.  But I'm no keymap
expert.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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