> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118531371404736&w=2
> >
> Could you please point me to where the patch is located ?
It's just one click from the URL I've mentioned above, I hope you can find
it. But as said I haven't tried this patch. By the way, that page gives a
link to a patch to the kbd package, and this link is no longer valid. I
guess you should contact the sender of that mail (Jirka Bohac) and ask him.
> > echo -en '\033%G'
> > kbd_mode -u
> > setfont lat2-16 -m 8859-2
> > loadkeys -u hu
> >
> No change in my setup. I have a few questions though:
> - That has to be non-unicode? Or it doesn't matters ?
^^^^
What do you refer to by "That"? I'm using an UTF-8 only setup.
> - I hope it should also work with 8859-15
Sure. Just make sure the font you load contains a Unicode map, or you supply
one. The "-m" option is not necessary, but makes gpm behave better (but yet
another kernel patch is needed to make gpm work with unicode anyway. We'll
return to this if you're ready with the other steps and you need gpm.)
> - I suppose that hu from loadkeys is your keymap ( pt-latin1/9 for me ) ?
Yes. Does pt-latin1/9 contain direct accented letters, or composing/dead
characters? In other words: do you expect a single keypress (maybe with a
modifier like Shift or AltGr) to produce an accented letter, or would you
need more keypresses?
Just for curiosity: please try the exact commands I gave you above, then run
the command "cat" and press the "main" letters on your keyboard. You should
see something like this:
0123456789öüó
qwertzuiopőú
asdfghjkléáű
íyxcvbnm,.-
Do you get these accented vowels there?
Do you see accented letters if they are printed by an application, not from
keyboard? E.g. try this:
echo -e 'x\0303\0241y\0303\0251z'
The expected output is:
xáyéz
("a" and "e" have an accent on them). Is it okay?
> - Just to be on the safe side: I do not have locale installed. Is it
> needed ?
If you launch the command "cat" (to get into cooked terminal mode) and then
just type letters, then no locale is needed. The kbd_mode, setfont, loadkeys
etc. command don't make use of locales.
However, if you run any more complicated utilities (including the shell, any
readline or ncurses apps) then most likely they need to have an UTF-8 locale
set up, otherwise they'll mishandle non-ascii letters. So you'd better have
at least one UTF-8 locale (either C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8) and set (export)
your LANG variable to this value before starting that application. (Altering
LANG within a shell probably doesn't change the behavior of that particular
shell, only its children.)
And finally, if you're all done with this and accented letters all work, try
the following: launch "cat", press four accented letters, press backspace
twice (now you see two accented letters) and press Enter. Probably you'll
see three accented letters being echoed back in the next line, which is
wrong. In this case, the command "stty iutf8" is the solution.
bye,
Egmont
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