Hi,
At Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:44:40 +0100,
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Luit is now in the XFree86 CVS. It is under xc/programs/luit.
Why not support ISO-8859-{10,13,14,16} and TIS-620? They can be
easily supported because all of them are ISO-2022-compliant
96-character charsets. Especially, TIS-620 will help Thai people
because there are small number of choices of terminal emulators
for Thai.
How do you think about Big5HKSCS? I don't know whether these
Hong-Kong characters have been included in Unicode or not.
And I hope Shift_JIS and CP932 (Microsoft replacement of Shift_JIS),
though I am afraid that they are difficult to be implemented.
(However, if one of them is implemented, the another will be easily
implemented with a small differential mapping table.)
I think JIS X 0213:2000 will be useful in future but it is not
popular so far.
How about GBK and GB18030? GBK is slightly more dirty than Big5
because C1 region is used for the first byte for 2 byte characters.
However, I think GBK is not so popular and GB18030 will be more
important in future (though I imagine GB18030 support is difficult).
How about Johab? Since Hanterm supports it, I imagine it is used
in real.
And, there is a difficult problem which we already started discussion:
how to deal with character width problem, when luit works with XTerm?
(I assume in future [XFree86 4.3?] XTerm will invoke luit in non-
UTF-8 locales by default.) I think Markus' proposal
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/scw-proposal.html
can be a candidate for solution but I am afraid this solution can
be too heavy, because luit will have to issue CSI 1 w for each
doublewidth character and XTerm will have to parse it.
Reference:
International register of coded character sets to be used
with escape sequences
http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/index.html
HKSCS information
http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/introduction.html
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