On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:16:39PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:06:21PM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote: > > Thank you. I also have a need to be able to write UTF-8 on my non-X > > systems. Do you have any thoughts on the matter? > > We don't have a console that supports utf8 for now. > ncurses also needs some complicated update before it will > be able to deal with wide characters... > > Things are not as easy as they would seem...
I'm sorry I can't just shut up and code, but if UTF-8 support is planned, could it be implemented in such a way that it doesn't cause a slow-down on old hardware if it is not needed. I ran into that on Debian when they defaulted to UTF-8. Luckily, I was able to remove their locales package after setting LANG=C; with locales and UTF-8 support, every app was very slow on my PII-233. Doug.
