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By author: Jochen Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> > - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for
> > worldwide usage.
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> Yes, I tend to ignore that. On the other hand, 255 and some
> characters are enough for a lot of languages (for example most
> ISO-8859 using languages). So UTF8 console (as you suggest) helps at
> least some people.
>
512 characters, actually (not including duplicates.)
However, the main reason we really want the console to support UTF-8
encoding for whatever character set it happens to use at the moment is
to root out 8-bit character set uses.
-hpa
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