Re: console UTF-8 fixes

Re: console UTF-8 fixes

[Samuel Thibault]

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). »

Samuel

Re: console UTF-8 fixes

[H. Peter Anvin]

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

Re: console UTF-8 fixes

[Jan Engelhardt]

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On Jul 24 2007 23:47, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
>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)

That got merged AFAICS...
759448f459234bfcf34b82471f0dba77a9aca498

please check :)


	Jan
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Re: console UTF-8 fixes

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jul 25 2007 21:20, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>(full mail at
>>http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.3/1387.html)
>
>That got merged AFAICS...
>759448f459234bfcf34b82471f0dba77a9aca498

Hm that seems to be a different one.. there have been quite a lot of
utf-8 related discussions and patches; I fail to keep track of it. My bad :(


	Jan
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