On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:33:40PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > Glenn Maynard wrote on 2002-02-21 08:10 UTC: > > One thing that's bound to be lost in the transition to UTF-8 filenames: > > the ability to reference any file on the filesystem with a pure CLI. > > I can generate plenty of file names with ISO 8859-1 that you will have > troubles typing in. Try a file name that starts with CR or NBSP just to > warm up. Nothing new with UTF-8 here. Keep it simple. > > > If I see a file with a pi symbol in it, I simply can't type that; I have > > to copy and paste it or wildcard it. > > How does pi differ from � or � in that respect? Nothing new here.
I can type � and � directly from the keyboard with my standard X danish keyboard, just as easlily as I can type @. Cant you? If this is still a problem with some X keyboards, I would say that we should try then to enhance them. I did it for Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish X keyboards, and it should be done for others too. I do not know the status rigth now, but maybe we could make an overview of X keyboards in this respect. My aim with the X keyboards was to at least be able with normal strokes (combinations of shift and alt-gr, and possibly a non-spacing accent) to be able to generate all of the relevant iso-8859 standard (8859-1, 8859-15, 8859-2, 8859-9 etc) for the keyboard in question. > > If I have a filename with all Kanji, I can only use wildcards. > > Just like with the file ��������� I guess. Has that been a problem > in practice so far? ���|���� can be typed in directly from normal standard X keyboards, what is the problem? Yes we should have ways to then do more characters of iso-10646, I once wrote RFC 1345 and that has a number of combination codes to get the most frequent ones. We could make a combination table out for that and that would go a long way to solve the most frequent needs. Then we could implement ISO/IEC 9995 (some part) for inputting of the rest of UCS. (maybe this is already done, I dont know). I can get hold of 9995 for this purpose, if wanted. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
