vt-is-UTF8
checks whether the current VT is in UTF8 mode, by writing (and erasing
afterwards) a 3-byte-long UTF8 sequence, and looking how much chars where
displayed by the console driver.
A message telling in which mode the console is is then written to stdout
(except if the
--quiet
option was given).
If the
--quiet
option is not given, the value returned is 1 if an error occurs, else 0.
OPTIONS
-h --help
display version number, a short help message and exit.
-V --version
display version number and exit.
-q --quiet
do not print on stdout in with mode we are, but return the state as
exit-status 1 if in UTF8-mode, 0 if in byte-mode. In case of error, 0 is
returned and a message is displayed on stderr.
BUGS
The check should be done by directly asking the kernel, which is not possible
as of kernels 2.0.x.
As of kernel 2.0.35, the byte-mode is sometimes erroneously detected
as UTF8-mode, after switching from a 512-chars font to a 256-chars
font. This is probably a console-driver bug.
