On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:46:40AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > So has anybody other issues or solutions?
> Issues: > > - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for > worldwide usage. Yes, I tend to ignore that. On the other hand, 255 and some characters are enough for a lot of languages (for example most ISO-8859 using languages). So UTF8 console (as you suggest) helps at least some people. > - 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. >From a peek at the mail archive I don't see anything related to that part, but I might have overlooked that. Sourceforges CVS is dead currently, so I can't check there. Has anybody live experience for: * Better Unicode support. You will be able to display Kanji on the command line. Bidirectional support. > - Input methods for languages which cannot be inputted by simple > keyboard mappings, like Chinese and Japanese. See the first port. > I think we should say that Linux console support *a little subset of* > Unicode. That seems to be the point. I'll try to remember that. Thanks for your comments. Jochen -- #include <~/.signature>: permission denied -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
