This is a late reply, but better late than never. ;-) Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to DragonFly, I have several Problem with my keyboard. My > preferred locale is en_GB.UTF-8 and I want to use UTF-8 as the input > charset (vi, etc.), but it doesn't work . Some special characters > (german umlaute) and e.g. the at character aren't recognised by > the console and xorg (including urxvt), with en_GB.UTF-8 -- with > LC_CTYPE_DE.ISO8859-1 everything works. How can I use en_GB.UTF-8 and > type UTF-8 texts?
Syscons does not support multi-byte character encodings, so you cannot use UTF-8 or any other unicode encoding natively on the VGA text console. I recommend you use ISO8859-1 or -ISO8859-15. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.
