Behdad Esfahbod wrote on 2001-12-14 14:53 UTC: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > > Hi all. I'm wondering two things about using UTF-8 on the console, where > > I spend a significant portion, though by no means the majority, of my > > computer time: > > > > - What is the cleanest possible way to get the console (all of the > > virtual consoles, not just the bootup one) into UTF-8 mode as early as > > possible? If it matters, I'm using the Rage 128 framebuffer driver on > > x86 Debian sid. > > Maybe putting a ESC%G sequence in your /etc/issue (?).
By the way, my current plan is that as soon as emacs, bash and readline all work satisfactorily under en_US.UTF-8, to pursuade Linus et al. that the Linux console should start in UTF-8 (as opposed to ISO 8859-1 at the moment), and that (just as a symbolic gesture) at least one of the kernel boot messages shall contain a few non-ASCII characters in UTF-8 (probably some block graphics from CP435). Proposals for interesting UTF-8 kernel boot messages welcome. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
