On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:16:18AM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > That should be > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/console/uk-utf.map > Indeed it should. Thanks. Heh, I knew there was a reason why I couldn't sleep tonight. > The keymap references a couple of files, unicode.map and compose.latin1. > Are they part of a distribution of console-data (using Ubuntu)? > No, they are from kbd-1.12 - keymaps/i386/include/unicode.map (that gets gzipped when installed) and keymaps/include/compose.latin1.
A quick test on etch suggests it will use compose.latin1.inc.gz from console-data, plus unicode.map from kbd, but the result doesn't work. It doesn't recognise quotedblebase (although it is coming from one of its own include files, for U+201e), makes some assumptions about the non-latin1 character values (assumptions look ok), returns status 0, but doesn't work. Commenting out U+201e gets rid of the message but makes no difference - dead accents display when followed by a space, like ^ [ AltGr with ' then space ] but not otherwise - oh, they do - ô but there is a need to key two spaces afterwards so AltGr with ; then 'a' then two spaces gives á - less than useful. The AltGr keys work ok for latin1 characters like «þ» but I seem to be getting garbage for the non-latin1 characters on AltGr (my font shows an inverse question mark although I can see the desired characters in some pre-prepared text in another tty). The input-by-number part is definitely not working correctly for non-ascii values. So, only works with kbd. Sorry. > During the last attempt to get compose support in the kernel at LKML, > the response was that the kernel console support was supposed to provide > facilities for emergency usage only (serial debugger, access to fsck, > etc). Therefore, the patch described at > http://www.advogato.org/person/simosx/diary.html?start=2 > although it solved the problem, got rejected. (Also the patch was > somewhat of a hack in the way it solved the problem). > > Simos > Thanks for the link. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
