Folks, I'm a friend of console. I do not talk about blinky GUI here. My work has to be done on console and terminals and yes, I have to use a keyboard.
For some reason frequency increases on getting ugly characters on my screen, when working with others. These ugly eyecatchers has clearly been identified as Unicode characters. As frequency reached the nasty level I changed locale to UTF-8. For some good reason I expected that this would work out, as we have year 2012 and Unicode was invented before 1990.
FreeBSD Handbook is surprisingly silent about UTF-8. The most enlightning result of searching the internet is this from http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-November/021084.html
This link gives an elaborate 404. Still wondering that "no translation from Unicode code points to UTF-8 sequences" made it to the devels which are known to be the last friends of console hacking.
Any light behind horizon as two more years passed?
For some reason frequency increases on getting ugly characters on my screen, when working with others. These ugly eyecatchers has clearly been identified as Unicode characters. As frequency reached the nasty level I changed locale to UTF-8. For some good reason I expected that this would work out, as we have year 2012 and Unicode was invented before 1990.
FreeBSD Handbook is surprisingly silent about UTF-8. The most enlightning result of searching the internet is this from http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-November/021084.html
This is a known issue, since there is no translation from Unicode code points to UTF-8 sequences. In other words, if you press ë, the keyboard layer will properly send a 235 to Syscons, but instead of encoding it as 0xC3 0xA9, will just emit a single byte, having value 0xE9.
Maybe a patch like this could already get that working, but it's just a quick hack.
http://80386.nl/pub/syscons-utf8.txt
This link gives an elaborate 404. Still wondering that "no translation from Unicode code points to UTF-8 sequences" made it to the devels which are known to be the last friends of console hacking.
Any light behind horizon as two more years passed?