Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dead keys in unicode console mode | Date | 8 Oct 2001 19:25:15 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20011009041618.A6135@win.tue.nl> By author: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If you want to do something like this, a new ioctl and a new > structure are necessary. If you design something new, keep > examples like Vietnamese in mind (with several accents on > one symbol). We do support that now in the 8-bit world, > but complete support of the 16-bit world still requires > some work. (And in the meantime Unicode has already gone beyond.) >
Absolutely; under no circumstances should any further 16-bit interfaces be created. We should expect to have to expand into the full 31-bit Unicode space.
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