Re: Fedora, unicode, console

From: James Wilkinson (james_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/04/04

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    Tero Niemela wrote:
    > is it possible to enter unicode (UTF-8) chars in
    > console with FC2 (or FC3t1)? If so, could you please
    > spell the correct font, keymap, locale setting,
    > entries in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, shell (bash or zsh)
    > configuration, editor (emacs or vim) configuration etc
    > to get UTF-8 enabled in console?

    It should just work. Note, however, there are very few fonts that have
    *all* the Unicode characters: Fedora has chosen a good one, but you will
    do much better in X, since most of the work is aimed at graphical
    interfaces. You may also find that if you have a particular language in
    mind, there will be one that is better at that particular purpose.

    > And since my keyboard
    > has not all UTF-8 chars, how those seldomly used chars
    > should be entered?

    Well, in vim, if you know the Unicode reference, try
    Ctrl-V u 1234
    (no spaces, and that should be typed in insert mode).

    Try http://www.unicode.org/charts/ for references

    For example, this line was typed into the console:
    ĂăőŒœű÷
    and this one into vim in the Gnome terminal:
    αβγ⌕⌖≗♫̓⊖

    (That's going to give a lot of people's mail readers a good work-out!)

    If it's an unusual language, you could try switching your keymap
    appropriately.

    James. 

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