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6 unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode
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9 unicode_start [font [umap]]
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12 The unicode_start command will put the keyboard and console into Uni‐
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15 For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values to
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20 For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output from
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23 The parameter font is a font that is loaded. It should have a built-in
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29 Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console. However,
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