1. A reasonably modern xterm will automatically be in UTF-8
mode if the locale is set to, e.g., en_GB.UTF-8. Correct?
2. But the Linux console is not. If on the console I say e.g.
echo à >test.txt (or cat >test.txt, Ã, return, control-D)
the à character is in test.txt in its Latin-1 version (0xE9),
not its UTF-8 version (0xC3 0xA9). Is this standard behaviour?
3. Assuming it is, I probably need to enable UTF-8 for the
console *explicitly* by means of unicode_start. But then I get
an error message:
KDGKBENT at index 128 in table 0: Invalid argument
and UTF-8 mode is not enabled. What does this mean and how can
I fix this?
Regards, Jan
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