From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760108AbXGXVwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:52:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755485AbXGXVw0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:52:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:53620 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755441AbXGXVwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: <46A6748E.1020305@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:52:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Egmont Koblinger Subject: Re: console UTF-8 fixes References: <20070724214736.GL3700@interface.famille.thibault.fr> In-Reply-To: <20070724214736.GL3700@interface.famille.thibault.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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