linux-kernel - Re: console UTF-8 fixes

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:20:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Egmont Koblinger <egmont@...linux.hu>
Subject: Re: console UTF-8 fixes


On Jul 24 2007 23:47, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
>Egmont got some UTF-8 fixes in mainline, Andrew Morton suggested it
>might be a good time to remember about bug 7746 Support for unicode dead
>keys: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 :
>
>« Quoting a mail from Vojtech Pavlik:
>
>"Several languages (polish, czech, slovak, ...) use dead keys (keys that
>don't do anything per se, but put an accent on the next letter). And
>now almost everyone is switching to unicode. And Linux kernel doesn't
>support unicode for dead keys. This means trouble."
>(full mail at
>http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.3/1387.html)

That got merged AFAICS...
759448f459234bfcf34b82471f0dba77a9aca498

please check :)


	Jan
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