UNICODE_START(1) General Commands Manual UNICODE_START(1)
NAME
unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode
SYNOPSIS
unicode_start [font [umap]]
DESCRIPTION
The unicode_start command will put the keyboard and console into Uni-
code (UTF-8) mode.
For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values to
keyboard keys using loadkeys(1), and have these appear as UTF-8 input
to user programs. Also, that one can type hexadecimal Alt-xxxx using
the numeric keypad, and again produce UTF-8.
For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output from
user programs, and displays the output accordingly.
The parameter font is a font that is loaded. It should have a built-in
Unicode map, or, if it hasn't, such a map can be given explicitly as
second parameter. When no font was specified, the current font is
kept.
NOTE
Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console. However,
usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles.
SEE ALSO
dumpkeys(1), kbd_mode(1), loadkeys(1), unicode_stop(1), utf-8(7), set-
font(8)
kbd 3 Feb 2001 UNICODE_START(1)
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