Dan Nicholson wrote:
Where did I get this bogus information from? It was from _you_ back
when you I was trying to test out the nautilus-cd-burner bugs and you
told me I needed to at least get xterm with luit set up for proper
UTF-8 support.
I did not explain my intentions well enough then. I meant: "It is
possible to set up UTF-8 on console, and some (but not all) X terminal
emulators support it too, but this would require a non-trivial step from
my side to verify your setup remotely. Let me ignore the error-prone
configurations and offer you a setup where you simply cannot make a
mistake."
As for the status of UTF-8 support on the console, here it is.
1) It is possible to load a screen font and display characters that the
font contains (LatArCyrHeb-16 has rather good Unicode coverage for
Europe if you don't need Greek). Characters in Linux console fonts
cannot have double width, i.e., CJK hieroglyphs are not displayable.
2) In LFS-6.2, due to a kernel patch, it is possible to copy-and-paste
Unicode text with GPM, as long as the screen font doesn't map two
similar characters to the same glyph. In LFS SVN, copying and pasting
Unicode with GPM produces garbage (and, thus, GPM is a mostly useless
package).
3) In LFS-6.2, due to a kernel patch that we apply on top of
linux-2.6.16, keymaps that utilized dead keys and/or composing worked as
long as they composed only ASCII characters with each other (the result
may be anywhere in Unicode). In LFS SVN, this works partially (i.e., the
result must be in Latin-1 subset of Unicode) because of the improvements
upstream. In unpatched Linux-2.6.16, composing in UTF-8 mode always
produced wrong results.
4) None of the restrictions in (2) and (3) apply in non-UTF-8 console mode
And my experience was that most unicode characters
wouldn't work on the console for me.
Didn't work for input or for output? Please paste your
/etc/sysconfig/console and $LANG, and let me see if anything is wrong.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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