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name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character
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map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font
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together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map
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- (as it is appropriate in the USA), <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
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+ (as it is appropriate in the USA),
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+ <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
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set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>.
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- If this variable is not set, the bootscript will not run the
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- <command>setfont</command> program, and the default VGA font will be
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- used together with the default application character map.</para>
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+ In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for
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+ conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus
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+ the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the
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+ composed key codes in the keymap.</para>
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+
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@@ -183,17 +186,17 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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- <para>There is no pre-made UTF-8 Russian keymap, therefore it has to be
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- produced by converting the existing KOI8-R keymap as illustrated
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- below:</para>
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+ <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from
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+ ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para>
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<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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UNICODE="1"
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-KEYMAP="ru-ms"
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-LEGACY_CHARSET="koi8-r"
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-FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
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+KEYMAP="de-latin1"
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+KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
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+LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
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+FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
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# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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EOF</userinput></screen>
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@@ -204,14 +207,16 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
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character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced
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by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press
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Ctrl+. A E to get Æ</quote> in the default keymap).
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- Linux-&linux-version; in UTF-8 keyboard mode assumes that accented
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- characters produced via dead keys or composing are in the Latin-1 range
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- of Unicode, and it is impossible to change this assumption. Thus,
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- accented characters needed for, e.g., the Czech language, can't be typed
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- on Linux console in UTF-8 mode (but files containing these characters can
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- be displayed correctly). The solution is either to avoid the use of
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- UTF-8, or to install the X window system that doesn't have this
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- limitation in its input handling.</para>
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+ Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the
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+ keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together
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+ are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European
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+ languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
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+ characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
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+ UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
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+ sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>α</quote>.
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+ The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
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+ X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
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+ handling.</para>
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DJ Lucas