unicode_start(1) -- Linux man page
NAME
unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode
SYNOPSIS
unicode_start
[font [umap]]
DESCRIPTION
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, some default font is loaded.
NOTE
Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console.
However, usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles.
SEE ALSO
dumpkeys(1),
kbd_mode(1),
loadkeys(1),
unicode_stop(1),
utf-8(7),
setfont(8)
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