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diff --git a/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/unicode_start.1 b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/unicode_start.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d11c314b --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/unicode_start.1 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +.\" @(#)unicode_start.1 1.0 010203 aeb +.TH UNICODE_START 1 "3 Feb 2001" "kbd" +.SH NAME +unicode_start \- put keyboard and console in unicode mode +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B unicode_start +.RI [ font " [" umap ]] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX "unicode_start command" "" "\fLunicode_start\fR command" +.LP +The +.B unicode_start +command will put the keyboard and console into Unicode (UTF-8) mode. +.LP +For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values +to keyboard keys using +.BR 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. +.LP +For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output +from user programs, and displays the output accordingly. +.LP +The parameter +.I 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. +.SH NOTE +Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console. +However, usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR dumpkeys (1), +.BR kbd_mode (1), +.BR loadkeys (1), +.BR unicode_stop (1), +.BR utf-8 (7), +.BR setfont (8) |