Kaixo! On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:57:22PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Why do people want to have a full-blown Unicode renderer and > input-method *in the kernel*? In fact they don't *want* that; they just want to have a correct display of their language while not in X11. As that work was done done by the kernel, and as support for various latin/greek/cyrillic/(other simple alphabetic scripts) was added (whihc, in retrospect, was a mistake), people came to expect the issue to be adressed in the kernel, as that is the current situation. But yes, you are 100% correct: it should be removed from kernel, the kernel should only display plain ascii, the bare minimum needed at the real console (that is, the important messages at boot or shutdown, that could go to a minitel or hp48 display trough an rs232 connection, if needed). And display of text in a non-X11 terminal (that is a better description than "console", that should be reserved for the minimalistic case above only) should be handled, just as with X11 terminals, by user level programs (and a lot of code could (and should) be shared between X11 and not X11 text terminals) > Can anyone name me a *single* reason (other than a bad taste in matters > of software architecture)? That is the only reason. > repair it if something goes wrong. Very few people want to have > Mongolian top-down and Syriac conjoining left-right boot messages, I > presume/hope. Well, it depends on the sort of boot messages. Emergency messages, of course not; but once the basic booting in place, and once the text display handling in place, messages about launching of web server, enabling wifi connectivity and such could very well be localized, and in fact it is nice to have them localized. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Catalan or Esperanto] [min povas skribi en valona, esperanta, angla aux latinidaj lingvoj]
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