Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

[James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > Someone is planning to rewrite the console subsystem for Linux 2.5.
> > > > That's definitely the time.
> > >
> > > Do you have the person's name or email? What is the platform number? Where
> > > can we jump in?
> >
> > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

Hi folks. I'm that person that is rewriting the console system.

>   I'm wondering how this project will affect
> several attempts (in the past) to support large character sets (large
> compared to 256 or 512) in consoles. By this, I meant KON and  KON2
> for Japanese, HAN, HAN2 and fbcon-hanio (a  Korean patch to kernel
> framebuffer) for Korean and unicon (as included in Turbo Linux) and
> jfbterm for CJK.

Seen both. They unfortunely are hacks that break other things. I'm working
to find a better solution.

>   Another interesting piece of information was posted
> about a year ago to kernel-traffic (?) by an Indian student. Details are
> at http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20001218_98.html#7 The latter
> is an attempt to support writing systems in which the mapping between
> character codepoints and glyphs is not 1 : 1 but n : m. I believe this
> is relevant to not only various Indic, other South Asian and South East
> Asian scripts (all derived from Brahmi script) but also to Arabic, Hebrew,
> Korean Hangul and various Latin/Cyrillic/Greek alphabet-based scripts
> (when ligature is necessary.)

I seen that patch. It was very nice. Yes I like to see real multilingual
support on the console. I haven't got the chance yet to rework it.
Especially since it will require alot of work. Anyone want to to a stab at
it. There are a few nasty issues to work out tho.

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