Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

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

Followup to:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.1020911082939.11755A-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> On 10 Sep 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > The only sane way to deal with this is to do a console daemon in
> > userspace...
> 
> As the re-invention of X proceeds apace... :-)
> 

I'm not suggesting reinventing X.  That's being done by other people
:)  That would be a project of a very different magnitude.

Reinventing Xterm is more like it.  One of the ideas that has come up
is to write such a console daemon so that it could also run in an X
window, which would give us something we right now sorely lack -- a
consistent terminal in a window and on the console.

	-hpa
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