On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 20:10 +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:52:18PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> [2006-10-29 14:10]:
> > No, that was a backslash, a three, a two, and a seven. Please
> > try again. If you disagree, then consider my usual invitation
> > to the Unicodistas to be extended - I'll take you seriously
> > once you've configured all my machines and all my applications
> > to display your foolishness properly.It just works out of the box
> Here's a nickel, get yourself some technology from this decade.
You say that without realising that all the machines I regularly use had
their operating system either bought or downloaded within the last two
years. Likewise all the software I run on them.
No idea what you've been downloading or buying, but I've had no trouble
with any of these multilingual posts and I've not done anything special
with this Fedora Core 5 installation. I probably had to install one or
more of the extra language fonts because they aren't considered default
on an english language install, but certainly nothing more than that. I
think that's entirely reasonable - if a whole bunch of unnecessary fonts
were installed by default wasting disk space I'd be among those
complaining.
Oh, and the multiply and x looked entirely distinguishable here. Not
that I'm advocating such use in a programming language, that would be
hateful.
Unicode works in pretty much any program I use on the desktop, even good
old fashioned xterm. The filesystem works perfectly well too:
% touch ぢひわ
% ls -al
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 martin martin 4096 Nov 1 21:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x 119 martin martin 12288 Nov 1 21:58 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 0 Nov 1 21:58 ぢひわ
%
That's output directly from xterm, using the default bitmap font, it
looks like that too (well, assuming it worked at your end :)).
The only thing I've found that's not quite there was filename completion
with zsh. With menu completion it expands the filenames to their escape
codes which isn't much use, but when you complete it the correct
characters appear.
All in all, pretty impressive, although I've not tried to see what
happens for right-to-left languages...
Cheers,
Martin.
