Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:43:14 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes |
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Egmont Koblinger wrote: > > I know that correctly handling all Unicode scripts, including CJK, Hebrew, > Arabic, Indic are a much more complicated story and it's way beyond the > scope of kernel. I don't even know whether there's any graphical user-space > application handling all these issues perfectly. So I really don't want to > address them. > > I'd like only one small modification: the cursor to jump two columns for CJK > characters instead of just one. (Either two FFFD's, or rather an FFFD > followed by a space printed.) This would allow you to edit English words > within a mixed CJK-English text file. As my experiences show, such a minor > change in the terminal driver would solve cursor aligning issues in *many* > cases. With this change the console would still be very-very far from being > perfect, it just would be simply better in practice. >
I don't see the point in dealing with one particular corner case, especially a corner case for which font support is inherently impossible.
> Are you still definitely against this change? I see no drawbacks this could > cause, while it would make the console better in some circumstances. I think > this is just a small step towards a better console driver.
It's bloat.
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