Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:53:12 +0200,
Jochen Hein wrote:

> As far as I can see, I can solve all my issues with applying these
> patches.  But, to keep the number of patches applied locally down, I'd
> like to see something like that integrated into the mainline.  Or
> perhaps a Debian Package kernel-patch-unicode.  So has anybody other
> issues or solutions?  Is anybody pushing UTF-8 patches to mainline?

Issues:

 - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for
   worldwide usage.

 - Cannot display CJK doublewidth characters, combining characters,
   bidi, and other complex scripts like Indic.  Linux Console Project
   (http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/) seems to work on CJK and bidi.

 - Input methods for languages which cannot be inputted by simple
   keyboard mappings, like Chinese and Japanese.

I think we should say that Linux console support *a little subset of*
Unicode.

Anyway, these problems are not likely to be solved soon.  Thus, please
go ahead packaging kernel-patch-unicode or so on if it can help a part
of the people in the world.  In such a case, please don't forget to
mention that the package cannot handle CJK, combining, nor bidi.

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