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Re: kernel tty patches

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Subject: Re: kernel tty patches
From: Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:50:59 +0100 (CET)
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Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx writes:

> > No. There doesn't appear to be consensus that the tty built-in line
> > editor must support multibyte encodings.
> 
> My opinion is slightly different: it must, but this is a very
> low-priority item. It will, eventually, I think.

OK. Then we agree about UTF-8. And how about CJK encodings? For them
also, the tty built-in line editor must know about characters' widths,
so it can correctly backspace over tabs.

Bruno
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