From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932436AbVHNELY (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:11:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932445AbVHNELX (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:11:23 -0400 Received: from ore.jhcloos.com ([64.240.156.239]:13319 "EHLO ore.jhcloos.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932436AbVHNELX (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:11:23 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Lee Revell Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts From: James Cloos In-Reply-To: <1123980802.14138.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:53:22 +0100") References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> <1123958572.11295.7.camel@mindpipe> <1123980802.14138.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Hashcash: 1:21:050814:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org::S0KWLaoypWJNIQxy:000000000000000000000000000000000XHJG X-Hashcash: 1:21:050814:rlrevell@joe-job.com::6WQ5If7Em3WBq72K:000000000000000000000000000000000000000007pNX Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox writes: Alan> The command line console mappings may not include them by Alan> default (you can obviously add them if your keyboard lacks Alan> them). The X keyboard however does include compose functionality Alan> for » and « and many other symbols that might be useful eg ± Not to mention that many editors, including emacs and vim, have their own support for entering such non-ascii characters no matter what the console or X11 keyboards look like. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr.