On 27 Jun 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> We are trying to work out an elegant and clean method for locale
> support in XTerm. I personally believe the condom approach is better
> than hacking at xterm. You disagree. I'm writing luit so that we may
> work out an informed opinion.
By the way, I hope that in the not to far away future (Linux 2.6?), we can
agree to remove all "ISO 2022 functionality" from the Linux console as
well, lock it to UTF-8 mode, and ask people who want to continue to have
it to run luit or screen on top of it. This will (especially interesting
for the graphics mode console) allow us to access the libc conversion and
wcwidth functions, which really should not go into a kernel subsystem.
Locking the console to UTF-8 will make the console safer to use (no more
binary spill can get it into the DEC graphics mode), and I think it will
encourage kernel/distribution programmers to use a bit more non-ASCII in
kernel and boot script messages.
Markus
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
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