On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:55 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > FreeBSD already supports UTF-8 when using X11, etc. The console driver > is restricted to 8-bit character sets. When you use FreeBSD > HEAD/8.0, you can add the following to your kernel config: > > options TEKEN_UTF8 > options TEKEN_XTERM Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE? > After that, be sure to replace `cons25' with `xterm' in /etc/ttys. This > will allow you to use UTF-8 on the console. The kernel will use a table > to remap all Unicode characters to CP437 (the default VGA font), so it's > practically useless. Is there an equivalent of deadkeys or the Compose key in FreeBSD consoles? :\ > It will probably still take a very long time before it's finished, but I > can already show you this screenshot I made the other day: > > http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png Shiny.
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