On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:09:28PM +0100, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > Kaixo! > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:57:22PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > > Why do people want to have a full-blown Unicode renderer and > > input-method *in the kernel*? > > In fact they don't *want* that; they just want to have a correct > display of their language while not in X11. > > As that work was done done by the kernel, and as support > for various latin/greek/cyrillic/(other simple alphabetic scripts) > was added (whihc, in retrospect, was a mistake), people came to > expect the issue to be adressed in the kernel, as that is the > current situation. > > But yes, you are 100% correct: it should be removed from kernel, > the kernel should only display plain ascii, the bare minimum needed > at the real console (that is, the important messages at boot or > shutdown, that could go to a minitel or hp48 display trough an rs232 > connection, if needed).
Yes, and that is in any language today. So we need full utf-8 coverage for that. Your minimalist approach was something we could live with 10 years ago, but not today. Best regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/