Hi, At Sun, 29 Sep 2002 03:30:47 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It _is_ too large to be included. The kernel should include a Latin-1 > font (for backwards-compatiblity) and let the user to load a large > font if they want. Though I don't understand where is the borderline of "too large" and not too large, I understand your idea to limit font to backward- compatibility range, i.e., Latin-1. In this idea, kernel will have only ability to handle UTF-8, and fonts will be supplied in another packages (like Linux Console Tools) if users need more than Latin-1 (like Euro). Since most Linux distributions will have such "another package", I think this is reasonable. I hope the kernel's "ability" will include support of zero-width and double-width characters. Anyway, what I hate is to divide people into two classes, people who don't need additional files/settings and people who need them. Japanese users were always forced to read books to configure softwares to be able to handle Japanese. I strongly hope that Unicode will equalize peoples in the world. To achieve this, we should not spoil the advantage of Unicode to ISO-2022 --- the unified character set --- by spliting the code space and saying "this code space is needed, that is optional". --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
