NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | NOTE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

UNICODE_START(1)           General Commands Manual          UNICODE_START(1)

NAME         top

       unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode

SYNOPSIS         top

       unicode_start [font [umap]]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The unicode_start command will put the keyboard and console into
       Unicode (UTF-8) mode.
       For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values
       to keyboard keys using loadkeys(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.
       For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output from
       user programs, and displays the output accordingly.
       The parameter font 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.

NOTE         top

       Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console.
       However, usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles.

SEE ALSO         top

       dumpkeys(1), kbd_mode(1), loadkeys(1), unicode_stop(1), utf-8(7),
       setfont(8)

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                                 3 Feb 2001                 UNICODE_START(1)

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