Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? | From | Simos Xenitellis <> | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:06:38 +0000 |
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Hi All, The current UTF-8 keyboard input (for the console) of the Linux kernel does not support "composing" or writing characters with accents. This affects quite a few languages that require accents (French, German, Danish, Swedish?, Greek, cyrillic-based?, others?.).
In general, UTF-8 console support is good to display text in different character sets, enabling to configure a distribution to use UTF-8 locales for both console/Xorg. However, while it was possible to write in German, Spanish, French, etc, now it is not possible anymore.
While looking into the problem, I noticed that there is work to make Linux console handle Unicode better.
Two links are of interest A. Improved UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel, by Chris Heath http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html B. Notes on the Linux console, by Innocenti Maresin http://www.comtv.ru/~av95/linux/console/
Discussion on these issues take place at the linux-utf8 mailing list, archived at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nlo.lists.linux-utf8
Chris Heath has a set of incremental patches (http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html) to enhance Unicode for the console. I noticed that he contacted this list in May 2003 (http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/7956.html) but unfortunatelly the discussion was diverted to coding styles.
Is there an interest for re-submission of mentioned patches for inclusion in the kernel (yeah, provided coding style is "normalised")?
Simos
p.s. I am not sending this e-mail on behalf of any of the authors, just myself.
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