Unicode support in shell

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Oct 25 23:24:43 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:31, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> >Running dumpkeys in an xterm says it couldn't find the console. 
> > Apparently, this stuff only works in vga text console mode, which I'm
> > under the impression there's a drive to remove from the kernel...
> >
> >Does it work for a serial console?  (I haven't got one...)
> >
> >My general response to 3 or 4 different internationalization APIs is to
> > ignore them all until there's only one left.  (This seems to have
> > happened with unicode, which is why I'm starting to pay attention
> > there...)
>
> dumpkeys on an xterm gives me:
>
> keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
...

Quite possibly an unbuntu bug.  I'll try again once I've upgraded my laptop 
from horny hedgehog to flatulent badger...

> and the rest of my keymap settings. With regard to various competing
> standards, I've never seen dumpkmap and loadkmap referred to anywhere
> (the Linux Console and Keyboard HOWTO uses dumpkeys and loadkeys, for
> instance), my Ubuntu system doesn't even have them installed, and
> they're not included in any Debian package...

I vaguely remember a discussion about them being busybox-specific, but I don't 
user internationalization much.

Rob



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