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DateWed, 10 May 2006 15:51:05 +0600
From"Alexander E. Patrakov" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix console utf8 composing
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Just for the archive...
>>
>> On Tuesday, 9. May 2006 09:49, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>>> Both the current situation and my patch share the defect that an accent 
>>> cannot be put on top of a multibyte character, such as Greek letter alpha.
> 
> With 80x25, that [almost] would not be possible either because of the 256 
> character limit. Of course the concern is totally valid for fbterm.

This concern is totally valid for the 80x25 console and the standard "gr" keymap:

compose '\'' 'α' to 'ά'

and the ά character is indeed present in the iso07.16 font and used in *.po 
files from console-tools.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov
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