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Re: Linux kernel 2.4.20 & internationalization

Sheshadrivasan B wrote:

I need to know if Linux kernel 2.4.20 supports internationalization.

I have been thro Markus Kuhn's article on UTF-8 and linux and I
understand support for UTF-8 was available from version 1.2.

However, the article also points to Bruno Haible's patches for the keyboard
driver and also the linux console project.

1. So I need to know Linux kernel 2.4.20 supports localization specifically
for the CJK locales, and that the keyboard and terminal/console drivers
do provide Unicode support ?

If not what are the patches that need to be applied for the same ?

2. Also is the regexp support available for these locales, specifically
  awk, grep etc ?


As far as I understand this, you want to read/write CJK on the Linux console.
You may find this discussion useful:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2005-01/msg00072.html
Also, this bugzilla report could be useful
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143014

Simos


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