From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031237AbXDJRaV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:30:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031236AbXDJRaU (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:30:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:53890 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031213AbXDJRaT (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:30:19 -0400 Message-ID: <461BC99F.7020604@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:30:07 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Egmont Koblinger CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes References: <20070406191245.GA11974@uhulinux.hu> <4616A2C7.3030000@zytor.com> <20070407092451.GA8779@uhulinux.hu> <20070407172603.GA25351@uhulinux.hu> <4617DBF7.5060009@zytor.com> <20070410094325.GB9143@uhulinux.hu> <461BB092.3070201@zytor.com> <20070410171924.GA18314@uhulinux.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070410171924.GA18314@uhulinux.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:43:14AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I don't see the point in dealing with one particular corner case, > > I wouldn't really call CJK a *corner* case, just think of how many people > use these writing systems. > > Theoretically it's just one particular case, I agree. In practice, however, > this case occurs relatively often compared to all the nontrivial cases a > full-featured terminal should cope with. > Really? Why is CJK so much more fundamental than, say, Arabic? -hpa