Re: Linux console internationalization

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:29:37AM -0400, Chris Heath wrote:
> > Also, I think that console-keyboard drivers may be divided to 2 versions,
> > with kernel build option:
> > 
> > the simple, with fixed 8bit codepage, unused legacy things like VT100 graphics removed
> > (for people who dont'n need i18n or work not so much in console)
> > 
> > and the sophisticated, full-functional and well internationalized.
> 
> Yes, I think this is the way to go.  I imagine we will meet a lot of
> resistance if we try to add heavyweight Unicode stuff into the existing
> console.

Well, you probably do not want to go for Unicode with all its
normalisation formas etc, but rather for ISO 10646 utf-8. 

If so, you should rather call it ISO 10646 utf-8 - which by the way is
an international standard (unicode is not).

best regards
Keld
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