On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:54:42PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author:    Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Sylvain wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks all for the help.
> > > Now, I would like to check out a few things, to see if I don't miss
> > > anything.
> > 
> > >  - The keyboard kernel driver has some troubles with dead-keys in utf8
> > > mode. Is this fixed in the latest kernels?
> > 
> > no, and apparently it won't be (unless somebody completely 
> > rewrites kernel console code and does the utf-8 support properly
> > this time)
> > 
> 
> There is exactly such a rewrite in progress for 2.5 (see LKML for who
> is doing it...)  They'd probably want your feedback to know what the
> problems are...

do you mean The Linux Console Project? If so, then I have already looked
into it a bit, and apparently they are focusing on rewriting input and
output API and no one (IMHO) touches console code.


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