On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Robert Millan wrote:
The interesting thing is, that after activation of "swedish.iso",
then Vim when used in a virtual console will accept Swedish vowels as
blank, invisible characters.
This suggest that input works but output doesn't. When doing this
kind of tests it's better to split things, e.g. by putting the
characters you want in a file and using "cat file" from the console.
I believe this is the "expected" situation as far as upstream is
concerned. Syscons just doesn't have a good way to display unicode (but
if I remember correctly it should be possible to use an 8-bit localized
font and locale to get reasonable display.
I don't think this is particularly well documented, but searching through
my mail archives picks up:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-June/017991.html
and causes me to check the freebsd wiki and see:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject
Ed Schouten (e...@freebsd.org) was the driving force behind the work to move
to the xterm type from cons25 and accept unicode input, but I haven't seen
any development on this stuff in many months. It's unclear whether he has
plans to work on unicode display in the forseeable future, it might be
worth asking him. I expect that if someone else wanted to tackle the
project, he would be able to provide some guidance, though.
-Ben Kaduk
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