linux-kernel - Re: Kernel utf-8 handling

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Message-ID: <20070602075845.GC20406@DervishD>
Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:58:45 +0200
From:	DervishD <lkml@...vishd.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel utf-8 handling

    Hi H. Peter :)

 * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> dixit:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > (1) I can do <Compose><~><n> just fine on vt
> > (2) I can do <ö> just fine on vt too
> > (3) And copy+paste them both using GPM too, again w/o probs
> 
> Both of those are in the 0-255 range, though.  I thought the issue was
> with characters 256+, like ??.  At least on my FC6 system that doesn't
> work with gpm.

    By now, to fully switch to utf-8, I only need to have áéíóúñ and
their uppercase counterparts (for people who cannot see the chars, they
are the acute accented vowels and the ntilde). I really hope that, in
the future, there are a way of fully use Unicode (and I mean the entire
range) using framebuffer in console (there probably is an emulator for
that job already, I have to check), but for the time being that's
enough.

    I really don't mind if I have to use an userspace program to have
unicode support on the console (the kernel shouldn't mess with
encodings, or have utf-8 only; I don't know the current status, that's
why I asked), but if the kernel does directly the job in the console
driver, that's not bad either.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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