G. Adam Stanislav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Of course, it still remains to be seen if having Unicode support on the
> >console is a Good Thing(TM).
>
> I don't see how it would be even possible, due to hardware limitations.
> The console can only support an 8-bit font (I mean 8-bit encoding).
Actually, if you can spare an attribute bit you can handle 512
characters in text mode on a plain VGA card. pcvt(4) uses this to
keep all of CP437, ISO Latin 1, various DEC character sets, and a
range of definable characters available.
> I see the main way of supporting Unicode in providing libraries that
> programs can use to convert between Unicode and local display.
... and to handle UTF-8. Yes.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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