Re: console UTF-8 fixes

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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.

	-hpa