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

[Anton Zinoviev]

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