From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262028AbULKW0U (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:26:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262031AbULKW0U (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:26:20 -0500 Received: from out009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.131]:18876 "EHLO out009.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262028AbULKW0S (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:26:18 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:26:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Jan Engelhardt , David =?iso-8859-1?q?G=F3mez?= , Simos Xenitellis References: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> <20041211212533.GA13739@fargo> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412111726.17242.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [151.205.42.94] at Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:26:17 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 11 December 2004 16:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Indeed is weird. Are you sure you keyboard is generating an UTF-8 >>enconded "ö"? Just check it with echo: >> >>$ echo -n ö | od -t x1 >> >>0000000 c3 b6 >>0000002 > >Yes it does generate 0xC3B6 (otherwise it would show up as garbage, > because it would not be utf8-compliant if it only output 0xF6) Which is exactly (0xF6) what I'm getting. Kernel version 2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.32-18 As an american, I've often wondered how to go about getting those accented characters out of a std american keyboard. I used to be able to get all those accented and other stuffs out of my amiga's keyboard, stuff like the Beta sign and so on. No can do now, and I miss it. [...] -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.