Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default

[Jean Christophe André <jean-christophe.andre@xxxxxxx>]

        Hi!

Selon Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> It is a good idea, but what range of UTF-8 do you think?
> Of course I am interested in whether CJK characters are
> supported or not.  Others would interested in other range
> of characters, doublewidth, bidi, or combining characters.

May be we should think "UTF-8 encoding" instead of "UTF-8 charset"!
What we all need at first, IMHO, is to be able to work in UTF-8 mode
only: UTF-8 streams everywhere, like in Plan9. The charset range is
not that important at this moment. It is a matter of pre-processing
(input methods) or post-processing (display methods), which could be
kernel modules, isn't it?

> If you think something (from the items listed above) would
> be excluded, please say "UTF-8 excluding foo and bar".

In my case I never think about excluding our Japanese friends, or
even any other UTF-8 concerned people! Any implementation should
keep in mind that it should work for *anybody* as soon as possible,
even if we can not make it work right now; make the code extensible!

Best Regards, JC, french people living in Vietnam... ;-)
-- 
Jean Christophe André
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie - Bureau Asie Pacifique

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