Fedora, unicode, console
Tero Niemela
tero_niemela at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 5 07:09:51 UTC 2004
> > 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.
Ok, thanks. I got some strange chars in vim with your
advice bt how to enter those same characters in shell
if I want a filename contain some exotic chars? (Yeah,
might be a bad idea, but just for the kicks..)
Thanks.
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