Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2004-01-09 23:07 UTC: > > Is the time ripe now to streamline the entire UTF-8 business with the > > console? UTF-8 is now much more of a mainstream thing than it was a year > > ago. > > It is a good idea, but what range of UTF-8 do you think?
I'm primarily thinking about the choice of encoding, not the choice of character repertoire. When the console uses hardware character cells, we are limited to 256 or 512 characters, so useful CJK support is out of the question. [When the console runs in graphics mode, I can see no reason why it should not support the upload of arbitrary-sized bi-width fonts, but that's a somewhat different construction site.] Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
