Re: _Accents--voilà!
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 2:25 |
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, David Starner wrote:
> >(I want Unicode in my terminal NOW! (said in the tone
> >of a toddler throwing a tantrum)).
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> What Unix are you running? If you're running a recent
> version of Linux (2.2+, I believe), and install a recent
> (similar era) version of console-tools, you can type
> unicode_start at the console, and it will accept UTF-8.
> The largest console fonts are only 512 glyphs (console bug),
> but that's enough for a large chunk of Latin and Cyrillic.
Yeah, Linux 2.4.5 on my desktop (but I've grown attached to FreeBSD after
installing it on my firewall). Can the keymap be modified so that I can
type Unicode chars? And is this console bug being fixed? or likely to be
fixed?
Tristan