On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:27:43PM +0200, Pierre Ficheux wrote: > I just start to take a look at Unicode/Utf-8 in console mode for Linux > 2.4 kernel. I'm a bit surprised as it looks VC_UNICODE is not really > used in keyboard.c (which handles most of kbd inputs). > Even if kbd mode is set to VC_UNICODE, first byte of keysym is used as > keysym type (KTYP: 0xF0 to 0xFC) and so some Unicode chars can't be used. > > May be I'm wrong, could someone explain??
At the moment this was implemented, the macro U() shifted things to private area. Later Unicode decided to have Private Area somewhere else. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
