Andries Brouwer wrote:
I think Edward states that this is his opinion. I would also love to see all of Unicode 4.1 supportedOn 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.
on the Linux console. However it looks difficult to get someone with those
two incompatible(?) skills, Linux kernel programming and love for linguistics...
I really like the patches of Chris Heath. Dead keys work (but in a hackish way), you can view Plane 1 fonts(!!),
you can type Alt+<codepoint number> and get the character, etc.
I suppose it boils down to the following facts:
- Fixing the dead keys issue looks to be an easy target, as soon someone comes up with a clean way on what to do..
- Fixing the dead keys issue will enable support mostly for European languages (Europe, Latin America?, Vietnamese?,...)
- Get more users interested in the Linux console and the need to support even more languages will come.
- There has been a recent discussion on LKML on this, people are interested to comment on patches/ideas.
- I would consider a bounty just for a plan on how to implement proper Unicode support for the Linux console.
Comments?
Simos
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