From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760232AbXGXVrx (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:47:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755485AbXGXVro (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:47:44 -0400 Received: from iona.labri.fr ([147.210.8.143]:43788 "EHLO iona.labri.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753531AbXGXVrn (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:47:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:47:36 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Egmont Koblinger Subject: Re: console UTF-8 fixes Message-ID: <20070724214736.GL3700@interface.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Egmont Koblinger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Egmont got some UTF-8 fixes in mainline, Andrew Morton suggested it might be a good time to remember about bug 7746 Support for unicode dead keys: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 : « Quoting a mail from Vojtech Pavlik: "Several languages (polish, czech, slovak, ...) use dead keys (keys that don't do anything per se, but put an accent on the next letter). And now almost everyone is switching to unicode. And Linux kernel doesn't support unicode for dead keys. This means trouble." (full mail at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.3/1387.html) And indeed, see http://bugs.debian.org/404503 There is a more recent patch proposed on http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.2/1723.html Is there any objection to the proposed way? (extending the internal type, and add a new ioctl for uploading unicode dead keys). » Samuel