Re: Syscons and termcap

From: Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:18:00 +0100
* Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn_at_googlemail.com>, 20101109 18:58:
> This may seem like a stupid comment, but I'd say that the "iso" does
> not imply UTF-8 support.  In fact, there seem to be only ISO or code
> page keymaps under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps.  But I'm no keymap
> expert.

Well, the funny thing about Unicode is that the first 256 codepoints are
equal to ISO-8859-1, so if you recode ISO-8859-1 to the multibyte
representation of UTF-8, it all works. This is why you could use such a
keymap without issues.

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 Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
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