On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > And console-setup doesn't (yet) support keyboard layout on kfreebsd. > Cc-ing debian-bsd and reassigning to console-setup for now (I don't know > what the BSD plan is for keyboard layout support).
The support for FreeBSD in console-setup is almost ready. I suppose I will be able to add support for FreeBSD in console-setup-mini (the main difficulty being the need to support non-UTF-8 encodings there) and if I am succesful this means the udebs will support FreeBSD too. However, there are some things that kFreeBSD and d-i people have to decide. In my test installation of kFreeBSD I am unable to enter any non-ASCII symbols. I suppose this is because of the attempt to have UTF-8 on the console. I failed to find in Internet anything useful about UTF-8 on the console except that in one Russian forum some people reported that UTF-8 is supported only for ASCII symbols. If this is true then perhaps it will be rediculous to use UTF-8 instead of some normal 8-bit encoding. The bad thing is that I don't know how to switch the console of kFreeBSD back to a non-Unicode mode. I tested console-setup on a normal FreeBSD installation (version 8.2) and all 8-bit encodings work there. So the problem is specific for Debian, not for FreeBSD. >From all I can see FreeBSD is not going to support UTF-8 anytime soon. Even if the problem is fixed somehow in the kernel, the console utilities of FreeBSD (kbdcontrol and vidcontrol) will require a significant changes before they can support >256 codes. For the installer this means that it has to work in a non-Unicode environment. So I'd like to ask - is this possible or UTF-8 is hardcoded? Does cdebconf support internationalizatin with 8-bit encodings? If it is difficult to support 8-bit encodings then what are the plans for kFreeBSD? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
