Re: Unicode Support
bruce@va.debian.org writes:
> There is substantial wide character support in the GNU LIBC 2. That will
> be in Debian 2.0 . There is unicode support in the console driver in the
> yet-unreleased Linux 2.1 kernel, although it seems to be mapping a
> 256-glyph code-page to Unicode, it is not making the entire Unicode set
> available via the console driver. I don't know about X, but of course any
> serious use of Unicode should be happening within X.
The 2.0 kernel already has support for unicode, but the main problem
is the kbd package, which is a bit limitted in this respect.
You may want to have a look at console-tools, at sunsite in
linux/system/keyboards/, to get better command-line support for
unicode.
I wrote a little primer about unicode, which is included in
console-tools.
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