UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can!

[Horst Günther Burkhardt III]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:55 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:

> FreeBSD already supports UTF-8 when using X11, etc. The console driver
> is restricted to 8-bit character sets. When you use FreeBSD
> HEAD/8.0, you can add the following to your kernel config:
> 
> 	options TEKEN_UTF8
> 	options TEKEN_XTERM

Yes, but will we see this in 8.0-RELEASE? 

> After that, be sure to replace `cons25' with `xterm' in /etc/ttys. This
> will allow you to use UTF-8 on the console. The kernel will use a table
> to remap all Unicode characters to CP437 (the default VGA font), so it's
> practically useless.

Is there an equivalent of deadkeys or the Compose key in FreeBSD
consoles? :\

> It will probably still take a very long time before it's finished, but I
> can already show you this screenshot I made the other day:
> 
> 	http://www.il.fontys.nl/~ed/freebsd-vt-unicode.png

Shiny. 
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