From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262015AbULKV0r (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262016AbULKV0r (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:47 -0500 Received: from 90.Red-213-97-199.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.199.90]:63441 "HELO fargo") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262015AbULKV0j (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:25:35 +0100 From: David =?iso-8859-15?Q?G=F3mez?= To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Simos Xenitellis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? Message-ID: <20041211212533.GA13739@fargo> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Engelhardt , Simos Xenitellis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> <20041211173032.GA13208@fargo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jan ;), On Dec 11 at 08:07:11, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> The current UTF-8 keyboard input (for the console) of the Linux kernel > >> does not support "composing" or writing characters with accents. > > That's weird, because "ö" (LATIN O WITH DIAERESIS) -- which clearly lies > outside the 7-bit range, is working on my system without myself poking the > kernel. Indeed is weird. Are you sure you keyboard is generating an UTF-8 enconded "ö"? Just check it with echo: $ echo -n ö | od -t x1 0000000 c3 b6 0000002 I'm using kernel 2.6.9 + Chris patch > So am I. I have to use xterm for anything fancy now... > (especially for the even-more fancy stuff that begins at three-byte UTF8 > sequences, such as Japanese :-) I know :)). By the way, and this is offtopic, have you checked uim? I was testing it the other day with good results, and like it a lot as a japanese (or another script, although i only use this japanese) input method. I've used it with anthy, just have to check it with skk. regards, -- David Gómez Jabber ID: davidge@jabber.org