Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:52:14 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: console UTF-8 fixes |
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Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Egmont got some UTF-8 fixes in mainline, Andrew Morton suggested it > might be a good time to remember about bug 7746 Support for unicode dead > keys: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 : > > « Quoting a mail from Vojtech Pavlik: > > "Several languages (polish, czech, slovak, ...) use dead keys (keys that > don't do anything per se, but put an accent on the next letter). And > now almost everyone is switching to unicode. And Linux kernel doesn't > support unicode for dead keys. This means trouble." > (full mail at > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.3/1387.html) > > And indeed, see http://bugs.debian.org/404503 > > There is a more recent patch proposed on > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.2/1723.html > > Is there any objection to the proposed way? (extending the internal > type, and add a new ioctl for uploading unicode dead keys). » >
Makes sense to me.
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