Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

[Tomohiro K. <tk...@ri...>]

Hi,

At Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:50:31 -0800 (PST),
James Simmons wrote:

> > > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi folks. I'm that person that is rewriting the console system.

Interesting.  Though there were a few projects such as KON for
Japanese, HAN for Korean, and JFBTERM for ISO-2022-based i18n,
none of them has planed to be integrated into Linux source code.
(offtopic: the reason of this problem is sometimes that skilled
Japanese developers are sometimes not good at English language.)

I have one request, though I am not very familiar with this area.
You know, east Asian languages use thousands of characters and
we need conversion engine to input our languages.  For X Window
System, we have a standard protocol which is called XIM.  However,
there are no such standards for console.  Are your project
planning to supply some API or interface for this purpose?
East Asian people will be more happier if the API is standardized
and we can use same conversion engine for all of Linux, BSD, and
other UNIX-like systems.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <ku...@de...>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N"  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/