I'm running in console mode most of the time, so it is rather useful for me. So this is what I found:
- UTF-8 works pretty well, as long as the applications support it. mutt, emacs, bash, and elinks are some of the programs I use. So from that point of view, it is very useful for me. Yeah! - Cut&Paste: This workes for characters in ASCII, but not for e.g. german umlauts. There has been a patch for 2.3.12 (linux-2.3.12-console.diff as referenced in the Howto). I've rediffed it for 2.4.19, so if anybody has a need for that -> send mail. Is there any effort in getting something like that into the current kernels? - Bruno Haible(?) has a patch (linux-2.3.12-keyboard.diff) to get caps lock running for Unicode. I've not rediffed that, but will probably apply that on to of the above patch and store a combined patch. This is not something I use often, so this is not my first interest. - Far more interesting is dead keys and (really useful) Compose for Unicode. There seems to be the unicode_dead_keys_linux-2.4.9.patch, but if I read it correctly it changes the Kernel ABI (linux/include/linux/kd.h). After that patch, loadkey should be recompiled, right? As far as I can see, I can solve all my issues with applying these patches. But, to keep the number of patches applied locally down, I'd like to see something like that integrated into the mainline. Or perhaps a Debian Package kernel-patch-unicode. So has anybody other issues or solutions? Is anybody pushing UTF-8 patches to mainline? Jochen -- #include <~/.signature>: permission denied -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
