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Re: Support for UTF-8 in compose tables
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:46:26AM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote:
> See
> http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/download/unicode_dead_keys_linux-2.4.9.patch.gz
> for a simple kernel patch (without adding a new ioctl)
>
> But that patch is just broken.
> You cannot change the size of struct kbdiacr.
>
Why? if you recompile all affected userspace tools...
> Moreover, as indicated, it does not achieve what is needed.
> It widens the output a little but fails to produce a string.
of course, the patch is _very_ simple, and your proposal is certainly
desirable. I just wanted to point out my patch which can be used by
those impatient who need dead keys in UTF-8 mode now.
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