On Thursday 19 September 2002 07:17 am, Maiorana, Jason wrote: > The main thing I find holding me back from really using > UTF-8 for all filenames is the lack a good input method support > for the console. I log into my machine with putty and cygwin from > windows boxes, ssh from linux, and gnome-terminal and the console > locally. If there was a way to use the same input method system at > each of those levels, then I would have a much easier time > > I dont think that IIIMF is really going to address the console > issue at that level.
Well, it is certainly supposed to. Do you mean that developers will not make use of it? If the people responsible for putty, Cygwin, ssh, gnome-terminal and the console don't put in IIIMF capability, you or someone else with similar needs almost certainly will. I haven't examined the IIIMF testing standards proposed by Free Standards Group for next month, but my understanding is that conforming distributions will eventually be required to ship with at least a minimum list of conforming utilities and apps. If you want one, tell Li18nux and FSG yourself. > (Also it uses UTF-16 internally, anyone else > find that wierd for Unix software?) The internal coding used by any software is totally irrelevant to any other software, or to users. UTF-16 stores BMP CJK characters in two bytes each, whereas UTF-8 requires three. This saves some space in a number of tables. It isn't a big deal, but it is a very reasonable design choice. -- Edward Cherlin Maintainer, Unicode HOWTO -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
