Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Jochen Hein <jochen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:46:40AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:

> > So has anybody other issues or solutions?

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

Yes, I tend to ignore that.  On the other hand, 255 and some
characters are enough for a lot of languages (for example most
ISO-8859 using languages).  So UTF8 console (as you suggest) helps at
least some people.

>  - 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.

>From a peek at the mail archive I don't see anything related to that
part, but I might have overlooked that.  Sourceforges CVS is dead
currently, so I can't check there.  Has anybody live experience for:

     * Better Unicode support. You will be able to display Kanji on
       the command line. Bidirectional support.

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

See the first port.

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

That seems to be the point.  I'll try to remember that.

Thanks for your comments.

Jochen

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