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From: "Michael B. Trausch"<fd0man@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: UTF-8 support for console
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>Number:         108442
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [request] UTF-8 support for console
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          suspended
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 27 18:30:20 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 27 09:38:36 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Michael B. Trausch
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
FreeBSD testing.trausch.us 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007     root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
UTF-8 characters are not supported natively on the system console, but
they are supported just fine in an xterm or another terminal that has
UTF-8 support.  The console should support UTF-8 character display, as
well, though this would probably mean that it would need to be a
framebuffer of some sort.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a file with the following contents:

=== Begin text file ===
This system is running FreeBSD which is Copyright  1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project, and Copyright  1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California.  All Rights Reserved.

Your system administrator is Sren.
=== End text file ===

cat this file to the display on the console of the box, and there are five characters that will not properly display.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 27 19:51:31 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is actually a change request and not a PRoblem record, 
i would suggest that you take this to -hackers (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers) 
or perhaps even -arch (change hackers into arch for the URL). 
I will leave this suspended for a little to think about this, 
but I don't think anyone will do something with this soon, I 
even think that keeping the console the way it is now is good 
enough. 

Change the status to suspended for the time being. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108442 
>Unformatted:
