On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:56:24PM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > 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 > I'm sorry to be pedantic on my first post to this list, but it's "only" the non-latin-1 composing and dead keys which don't work. Not trying to minimise the scope of the problem, I'd love to be able to type in more languages at the console.
I've put an example British keymap at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/uk-utf.map - if a dead key in the standard xorg layout can be made to work on the console, it uses it (so, for example, dead acute works on a,e,i,o,u only), and there are some other variations. 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/
