Re: RE : UTF-8 support status.

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

Followup to:  <20020213220442.GB29425@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Sylvain wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks all for the help.
> > Now, I would like to check out a few things, to see if I don't miss
> > anything.
> 
> >  - The keyboard kernel driver has some troubles with dead-keys in utf8
> > mode. Is this fixed in the latest kernels?
> 
> no, and apparently it won't be (unless somebody completely 
> rewrites kernel console code and does the utf-8 support properly
> this time)
> 

There is exactly such a rewrite in progress for 2.5 (see LKML for who
is doing it...)  They'd probably want your feedback to know what the
problems are...

	-hpa
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