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# The Linux Console Tools

## Yann Dirson, `dirson@debian.org`

18 May 1999

## 1. Status of this document

- 1.1 Other documents

## 2. What the Linux Console Tools are

## 3. Understanding the big picture of the console

## 4. What is Unicode

## 5. Understanding and setting up the keyboard driver

- 5.1 How it works
- 5.2 See also

## 6. Understanding and setting up the screen driver

- 6.1 Unicode is everywhere
- 6.2 The unicode screen-mode
- 6.3 The byte screen-mode
- 6.4 Special UCS2 codes
- 6.5 About the old 8-bit ``screen maps''
- 6.6 See also

## 7. Font files

- 7.1 The formats
- 7.2 Tools

## 8. The libraries

- 8.1 libconsole, `<lct/console.h>` + `<lct/ksyms.h>`
- 8.2 libcfont, `<lct/font.h>`
- 8.3 libctutils, `<lct/utils.h>` + `<lct/unicode.h>`

## 9. The future of the console driver and of the Linux Console Tools

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