Documentation/admin-guide/unicode.rst

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15 characters to fonts.  By downloading a single Unicode-to-font table,
16 both the eight-bit character sets and UTF-8 mode are changed to use
19 This changes the semantics of the eight-bit character tables subtly.
25 LAT1_MAP	Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1)		ESC ( B
33 permits for example the use of block graphics even with a Latin-1 font
37 codes nor their uses match ISO 2022; Linux has two 8-bit codes (G0 and
38 G1), whereas ISO 2022 has four 7-bit codes (G0-G3).
41 U+F8FF has been reserved for OS-wide allocation (the Unicode Standard
44 point since it lets the direct-mapping area start on a large power of
45 two (in case 1024- or 2048-character fonts ever become necessary).
49 hard-coded to map directly to the loaded font, bypassing the
50 translation table.  The user-defined map now defaults to U+F000 to
52 might be shorter; for example, vgacon can only handle 256-character
53 (U+F000..U+F0FF) or 512-character (U+F000..U+F1FF) fonts.
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72 omitted the scan 5 line, since it is also used as a block-graphics
81 since they are horribly vendor-specific.  This, of course, is an
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108 located it at the end, on a 16-cell boundary in keeping with standard
119 system with 10 digits, and is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
143 	- Written <q> in standard Okrand Latin transliteration
145 	- Written <Q> in standard Okrand Latin transliteration
161 U+F8F5	KLINGON DIGIT FIVE
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