Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:40:54AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> >On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:54, Denis Barbier wrote:
> >> As you chose el_GR.UTF-8 as the default locale, you have to find
> >> a way to provide a working UTF-8 console. If jfbterm works for 2nd
> >> stage, it could also be used when installation is over, couldn't
> >> it?
> >
> >I thought about it, but IIRC I read in this list that we might change
> >from console-* packages to a kbd-based solution, which is supposedly
> >more UTF-8 compliant.
>
> All UTF-8 patches to kbd since been applied to console-* ;
> remaining UTF-8 issues are due to the kernel.
To be a little bit more verbose, Linux kernel can only cope with
512-glyph console fonts, this is why console is unsuitable for some
Asian languages. Greek is not hit by this problem, so one might
think that el_GR.UTF-8 is fine. And indeed console-tools and kbd
should be able to display UTF-8 text without problem. But AFAICT
the other issues Alastair is talking about is that one cannot enter
UTF-8 encoded text on console due to another kernel limitation.
To summarize, UTf-8 console should work fine unless you have to type
multibyte characters.
Denis
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