On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:35:26PM -0500, Edward H. Trager wrote: > First, I think the Linux developer community needs to think very *broadly* > to include all scripts defined in Unicode 4.1. It is not good enough to only > be > able to handle Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, even if one can solve the problem > with accented characters for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic. Ideally the console > would be able to handle CJK, Arabic, Syriac, Devanagari, Bengali, Myanmar, > Tibetan, and > Mongolian UTF-8 as deftly as it can handle Latin.
A funny letter. Someone complains about a comparitively small issue that is not very difficult to fix, and you come with the wise advice "first implement support for all languages and all alphabets of the world". Your letter can be summarised as saying "forget about improving the console code". Wonder whether it is that you intended. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
