[Pkg-kbd-devel] Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

Anton Zinoviev anton at lml.bas.bg
Fri Oct 14 15:54:55 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:28:00PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 
> It is possible to use the boot loader - grub or lilo - to load the
> font very early but I don't know if it is possible to switch to
> Unicode mode that early.  Maybe there is some handy boot argument of
> the kernel?

In order to switch to UTF-8 mode it is enough to echo the corresponding 
magic sequence.  However no SFM will be loaded in the kernel so this was 
not a good idea.

Anton Zinoviev





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