Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> Issues:
>
> - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for
> worldwide usage.
>
> - Cannot display CJK doublewidth characters, combining characters,
> bidi, and other complex scripts like Indic. Linux Console Project
> (http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/) seems to work on CJK and bidi.
>
> - Input methods for languages which cannot be inputted by simple
> keyboard mappings, like Chinese and Japanese.
>
> I think we should say that Linux console support *a little subset of*
> Unicode.
>
That's a good way of putting it.
> Anyway, these problems are not likely to be solved soon. Thus, please
> go ahead packaging kernel-patch-unicode or so on if it can help a part
> of the people in the world. In such a case, please don't forget to
> mention that the package cannot handle CJK, combining, nor bidi.
The only sane way to deal with this is to do a console daemon in
userspace. That way it doesn't have the limitations that putting all
these huge fonts and tables in kernel space inherently carry. I think
there already is such a package for CJK at least (called kon) --
either way it is the only sane way to deal with this. By running it
on top of the kernel-provided frame buffer it shouldn't require tons
of configuration either.
-hpa
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