Re: cyrillization
Browsing through old mails, I read:
Marco d'Itri writes:
> On Oct 13, Michael Bravo <mbravo@tctube.spb.su> wrote:
>
> >1) default cyrillic console fonts (koi8 ones) in Debian package are not
> >standards-compliant - they have pseudographics in wrong places. Should I file
> >a bug?
> Yes. If someone finds a font with an incorrect or incomplete encoding should
> file a bug. We also need a table stating the encoding of every font we have.
That's not necessary indeed, as long as the font file includes a
so-called "unicode-map" (only PSF files can do that for now - use
"file <fontfile>" to check that), AND there is what I call an
"application charset map" loaded which defines the encoding used by
applications.
Note that current kbd (0.95) cannot do the latter, though the
functionnality is in the kernel since a long time indeed.
console-tools, which I'm finishing to package for slink, can do that.
> >3) I would like to discuss the problem of cyrillic users related to the
> >presence of at least three actively used encodings - cp866 (DOS; OS/2), koi8
> >(defacto UNIX- and Internet-world standard), and cp1251 (MS products).
> I don't know if there is really much to discuss. We should support keymaps
> for all three encoding, and maybe extra encoding via HYPER and SUPER keys.
> (Please read my keyboard maps rationalization draft on the web pages of
> the list.)
Ideally, the keymap should be encoding-independant
(ie. unicode-defined). But this means hacking the console-driver.
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