On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote: > Hi all :) > > I have a do-it-yourself Linux box, and I'm planning to move to UTF8 > (currently I'm using es_ES locale, with latin1 encoding). One of my main > concerns (apart from programs with little or no utf8 support, which I > will have to suffer) is kernel handling, because I only use the console; > I only use X and a terminal emulator if I can't avoid it. > [...] > > Will the console work as it works now if I can live with latin1 > accented characters only? Is there any terminal emulator *for the > console*, not for X, that handles utf8? Will I be sentenced to X to be > able to use my computer with utf8? > Sure, the console will work (don't know about a console terminal emulator). I'm not very keen on compose keys - I find dead diacriticals (like in X) are usually easier to enter, and I've got all the dead latin1 accents working on my uk keymap. Other diacriticals for normally-latin1 keymaps are a different matter (e.g. caron, ogonek, dot above) - they could be mapped for a specific letter on a specific key (e.g. AltGr z for ż ; z with dot above) but the diacritical modifiers can't be mapped for non latin1, at least in kbd-1.12. You can also alter the keymap to allow you do ISO 14755 input (ctrl+shift+hex_digits) - useful for occasional characters, if they are in your font and you can remember their value.
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