Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checked in

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:27:57AM -0400, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> Absolutely.  See, for instance,
> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr19/>.  You will have to wade through
> a lot of poorly worded standardese in order to convince yourself of
> that, though.

Well, I have no problems with doing that.  Would have been nice if you had
cited the standards to convince me of that :)
 
> It's also worth pointing out that UCS _is_ Unicode.

Well, I was aware of a close relationship, but I also read the UTF-8 and
Unicode FAQ and now I looked it up again and found this:

"UTF-32 is the exact same thing as UCS-4, except that by definition
 UTF-32 is never used to represent characters above U-0010FFFF,
 while UCS-4 can cover all 2^31 code positions up to U-7FFFFFFF."

(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/ISO-10646-UTF-16.html)

> If you want to design a console/terminal emulator in The Right
> Way(tm), then you might want to have a look at the linux-utf8 [sic]
> i18n@xfree86.org mailing lists, where the topic of next-generation
> terminal emulation and consoles is discussed from time to time.  It
> would be good to be compatible with UTF-8 xterm, for instance.

Thanks for the pointer.  What do you mean with compatible?  I am going to
use the X Unicode fonts, if they give any decent output on the console with
a VGA card (have not tried yet).

Thanks,
Marcus

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