speakup and vim problem with key echo

[Rynhardt Kruger]

I implemented the suggestion about turning off UTF-8 support, and now vim speaks perfectly. I also found that speakup 
still reads the correct character names on the console. For instance when pressing alt+234 on numpad, speakup still 
reads "e circumflex" so it seams one can just as well turn UTF-8 off. From what I know speakup can anyway not read 
characters above code 255.

Thanks,

Rynhardt

* Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> [100804 04:09]:
> This is an interesting area but isn't utf-8 becoming the defacto
> standard and the ultimately better way to go? I know when I switched
> to utf-8 in elinks, some of the characters over 127 represent better
> in elinks and speakup handles them quite well with proper descriptions
> instead of those stupid %222 type symbols all over the place.  I
> especially like this improvement while reading HTML type messages
> inside of mutt.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:02:24PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > These problems with vim seem to be related to UTF-8.  I have UTF-8
> > disabled in Slackware, and vim works properly.  To disable UTF-8,
> > you have to pass "vt.default_utf8=0" to the kernel at boot time.
> > Then, set your LANG environment variable to "en_US."  This is a
> > non-UTF-8 version of English.  In Slackware, this is the default,
> > but my understanding is that it is not in most other Linux
> > distributions.
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