View file File name : unicode_start Content :#!/bin/sh # 0. Check whether we're on a console TTY="`/usr/bin/tty`" case "$TTY" in /dev/console|/dev/vc*|/dev/tty[0-9]*) ;; *) echo "unicode_start skipped on $TTY" >&2 exit 0 ;; esac # Enables Unicode processing in the current console. # # 1. The input side: the keyboard driver. # Set the keyboard driver in Unicode mode. (Default is ASCII mode.) # This really does nothing with the way normal keys are handled in # the kernel. All it does is: # - It is necessary for `dumpkeys' in order to not drop U+XXXX # entries from the keymaps. # - It is necessary for `loadkeys' in order to avoid warnings. # - Unicode characters typed as Alt-x1 ... Alt-xn (where x1,...,xn # are digits on the numeric keypad) will be emitted in UTF-8. /bin/kbd_mode -u # Change the keyboard mapping in such a way that the non-ASCII keys # produce UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences, instead of single bytes # >= 0x80 in a legacy 8-bit encoding. # Non-root users are allowed to change the unicode mode of their console, but # not the global keymap. root will have to load the keymap in unicode mode # explicitly. uid="`id -u 2>/dev/null`" ||: if [ "$uid" = '0' ]; then # There is no way of reverting the effect of "dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode", # the memory of the earlier keymap is lost. Therefore, try # to save a copy of the original keymap to be able to reload it in unicode_stop. # (see also http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2003-08/msg00053.html): [ -n "$HOME" -a "$HOME" != '/' ] || HOME='/root' if [ -d "$HOME" -a -w "$HOME" ]; then [ -d "$HOME/.kbd" ] || mkdir -- "$HOME/.kbd" [ ! -w "$HOME/.kbd" ] || dumpkeys > "$HOME/.kbd/.keymap_sv" fi # redirect stderr and stdout of loadkeys to /dev/null to avoid the confusing # "plus before udiaeresis ignored" warnings. dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode > /dev/null 2>&1 fi # 2. The output side: the console screen. # Tell the console output driver that the bytes arriving are UTF-8 # encoded multibyte sequences. if [ -t 1 -a -t 2 ]; then printf '\033%%G' fi stty iutf8 # Tell the graphics card how to display Unicode characters not # contained in the IBM 437 character set (on PCs). The font should # have a Unicode map attached, or explicitly specified, e.g., # by giving `def.uni' as a second argument. # Source /etc/vconsole.conf to get default font . /etc/vconsole.conf DEFAULT_UNICODE_FONT=$FONT # Also drdos8x16 is a good candidate. case "$#" in 2) /bin/setfont "$1" -u "$2" ;; 1) /bin/setfont "$1" ;; 0) /bin/setfont $DEFAULT_UNICODE_FONT ;; *) echo "usage: unicode_start [font [unicode map]]" ;; esac