Hi, At Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:53:12 +0200, Jochen Hein wrote:
> 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? Issues: - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for worldwide usage. - Cannot display CJK doublewidth characters, combining characters, bidi, and other complex scripts like Indic. Linux Console Project (http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/) seems to work on CJK and bidi. - Input methods for languages which cannot be inputted by simple keyboard mappings, like Chinese and Japanese. I think we should say that Linux console support *a little subset of* Unicode. Anyway, these problems are not likely to be solved soon. Thus, please go ahead packaging kernel-patch-unicode or so on if it can help a part of the people in the world. In such a case, please don't forget to mention that the package cannot handle CJK, combining, nor bidi. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
