On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:36:44PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote: > In my "quest", I'd like to use UTF-8 in all consoles. I almost did > it, except for a little detail: I cannot use any kind of accents with > any of my letters. Here is what I do > > loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.winkeys > loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/compose.latin1.add
Composing characters don't work with utf-8, but a patch exsts (not tested by me). It was mentioned last week on kernel list: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118531371404736&w=2 Standalone accents should work, but you may need to pass a -u/--unicode option to loadkeys. (Not mentioned in loadkeys manual, but printed by loadkeys --help.) I'm using something like this; this should work work you too: echo -en '\033%G' kbd_mode -u setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2 loadkeys -u hu If you press the keys, some accented vowels should appear. Furthermore, brand new in 2.6.22: there's a file called default_utf8 (or something similar) somewhere under /proc, echo 1 to it and your newly allocated or reseted terminals will automatically be UTF-8 so you won't need that \033%G. bye, Egmont -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
