From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261976AbULKRbY (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:31:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261977AbULKRbY (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:31:24 -0500 Received: from 90.Red-213-97-199.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.199.90]:24736 "HELO fargo") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261976AbULKRbT (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:31:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:30:32 +0100 From: David =?iso-8859-15?Q?G=F3mez?= To: Simos Xenitellis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? Message-ID: <20041211173032.GA13208@fargo> Mail-Followup-To: Simos Xenitellis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Simon ;), > The current UTF-8 keyboard input (for the console) of the Linux kernel > does not support "composing" or writing characters with accents. Yes, i recently find it out when trying to switch all my system to UTF-8. But the patch from Chris you mention below works very well for me (and for anybody that needs to type compose characters for languages based in the latin1 encoding i guess). > affects quite a few languages that require accents (French, German, > Danish, Swedish?, Greek, cyrillic-based?, others?.). Spanish ;)) > 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. Chris told me in the utf-8 mailing list that he doesn't think his patch to make the kernel generate UTF-8 characters in the compose tables will be included in the main kernel. Basically because is not a full solution that cover all the cases... But there is nothing better, so maybe it will be a good idea to include it. Current state is, for 2.6 kernel, text console is broken in UTF-8 mode because it cannot generate UTF-8 composed characters. > Is there an interest for re-submission of mentioned patches for > inclusion in the kernel (yeah, provided coding style is "normalised")? At least, I am _really_ interested :) regards, -- David Gómez Jabber ID: davidge@jabber.org