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 Uni-
    code (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)