Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

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

Followup to:  <20020911175342.GA19998@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jochen Hein <jochen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> >  - 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.
> 

512 characters, actually (not including duplicates.)

However, the main reason we really want the console to support UTF-8
encoding for whatever character set it happens to use at the moment is
to root out 8-bit character set uses.

	-hpa
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