linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

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Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:30:07 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Egmont Koblinger <egmont@...linux.hu>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:43:14AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> I don't see the point in dealing with one particular corner case,
> 
> I wouldn't really call CJK a *corner* case, just think of how many people
> use these writing systems.
> 
> Theoretically it's just one particular case, I agree. In practice, however,
> this case occurs relatively often compared to all the nontrivial cases a
> full-featured terminal should cope with.
> 

Really?  Why is CJK so much more fundamental than, say, Arabic?

	-hpa

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