Re: Unicode quotes in C

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20011108231017.A786@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> Why do you think clients that can't display these quotes are broken? By
> the nature of the PC console, the Linux console (on the ix86, at least)
> can only display 512 different characters, 256 if you want bold
> characters. Conformant Unicode systems can support whatever set of
> characters they want. Give me a list of characters (< 256) that
> en_*.UTF-8 should support, and a consensus, then we can start
> claiming they're broken and fixing them.   
> 

Not quite true -- it can only support 512 *GLYPHS*.  This limitation
remains in the frame buffer consoles which most systems can use these
days, although for no good reason -- it should be trivial to extend to
at least 2048 (at that point the mapping system Linux uses for "direct
to font" breaks down; additional code points could be added for that
purpose using a high plane.)

However, those 512 glyphs can represent additional characters as needed.

	-hpa
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