> Is the time ripe now to streamline the entire UTF-8 business > with the console?
I wouldnt mind some progress. There are many small steps to be taken. Several of these would mean the introduction of new ioctls, which is not especially popular, but we might try and see whether such patches are accepted. A good start would be an improved ioctl for composed characters. The existence of the fork kbd / console_tools slows down development. I cannot easily change kbd and the kernel. Hope that sooner or later everybody will start using the same package again, and life will be simpler. Maybe console_tools is unmaintained today - the last release I saw was from 1999. It is still used by Debian, don't know by what other distributions. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
