Re: Any way to make Alt key like X-windows in UTF-8 terminal?

[Emanuel Berg]

fellswalker@gmail.com writes:

> Code at http://pastebin.com/3q9Qn2qG also deals with
> M-\, M-space, M-:, others.

Here [1], it says:

> The Linux kernel maintainers do not accept patches
> for better Unicode support on the console because the
> console is to be used as an emergency interface.

The Linux people are almost always right (monolithic
kernel, in C, in all essence Unix, "people want
features", open source, etc.) so I suspect the Unicode
chars can screw things up, so you can't use the console
as a fallback, and that is why they don't want it.

Check out: 'unicode-data', 'console-data', and 'fbterm'

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/23610/tty-unicode-problem

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