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<H1>UNICODE_START</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: 3 Feb 2001<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>unicode_start</B>
[<I>font</I> [<I>umap</I>]]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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The
<B>unicode_start</B>
command will put the keyboard and console into Unicode (UTF-8) mode.
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For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values
to keyboard keys using
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+loadkeys">loadkeys</A></B>(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.
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For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output
from user programs, and displays the output accordingly.
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The parameter
<I>font</I>
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.
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<H2>NOTE</H2>
Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console.
However, usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+dumpkeys">dumpkeys</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+kbd_mode">kbd_mode</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+loadkeys">loadkeys</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+unicode_stop">unicode_stop</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+utf-8">utf-8</A>(7),</B>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+setfont">setfont</A></B>(8)
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