Today at 20:58, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > I very like to agree with you on that implementing Unicode in > kernel is not feasable at all, but I much prefer to see the > console is refactored and implemented as a user-space application > instead, and then supports all good stuff. The reason for that, > not mine, but I heard that: "A japanese system administrator > should be able to read the error messages in japanese." and deep > down there we all know that it's true. Any argument against > that, has its roots in "we are not technically advanced enough to > get there yet".
Look at "console" in GNU system (part of recent GNU/Hurd tarballs and packages I think). It's neither advanced enough to support all of Unicode on VGA hardware (yet! :), but it's userspace, and has many desireable features that might be worth considering (I believe there's even a plug-in to allow XKB configurations to be used for input configuration). Cheers, Danilo -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
