Re: Wishlist for woody+1
At Sun, 26 May 2002 15:46:56 +1000,
Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:21:46AM +0200, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:33:39PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> >
> > > Containing:
> > > - Tags (former Keywords)
> > > - UTF-8 for debconf templates, changelogs etc.
> > To these two: make UTF-8 the default encoding and tag the packages
> > concerning their Unicode-readiness.
We have to prepare UTF-8-capable console *or* encoding-conversion
mechanism for debconf, because Linux console's UTF-8 support is
currently very poor (only a few hundreds of characters, no combining
characters, no east Asian characters, no bidi). We hope debconf
should be able to run in console (non X), don't we?
There is a project to enable Linux console to display Kanji and Bidi
(http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/). Though I think it is a very
nice project, I don't know it will be in time for Woody+1.
(You know, there are already several Japanese and Korean debconf
translations. They run well on both X Window System (kterm, hanterm,
mlterm, rxvt, ...) and console (with kon2/jfbterm). I hope the migration
into UTF-8 won't result in inconvenience for these languages.)
> > to the one above - international keyboard!!! I guess Linux is the system
> > (apart from KDE. I don't use it) which really doesn't support us poor
> > users who have to use both German and Russian keyboard layouts - no
> > English please :) I do have a custom de_ru keymap for X (console is even
> > worse in this :((), which works half-way, but it's still a pain in the
> > a** as I don't have dead keys available. And imagine, I'd like to also
> > have Latvian layout - I'd have to reconstruct diverse files under /etc/X11,
> > which is not a simple task. Yes, I do know that it's not a Debian problem,
> > but it surely should be addressed in some way.
>
>
> The gnome keyboard applet (gkb_applet in package gnome-applets) lets you
> switch between any number of keyboard layouts, so what you're after isn't
> just in KDE.
Does it work well for east Asian complex languages which need conversions?
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