Subject: Re: Japanese with wscons?
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/12/2001 13:46:23
>> Personally I'm writing a graphical wscons driver which can display
>> languages other than English. It uses UTF-8 encoding, and once it's
>> completed you'll be able to see English, Japanese, Korean, etc. on "one"
>> screen. The first test release will be available shortly (within this
>> week or next).
one queetion: how do you distinguish between CJK unified ideograms?
for some codepoint japanese/chinese/tiwanese/korean glyphs are
different, and it is the very problem why many of people do not
advocate Unicode and prefer iso-2022. i'd really like to see
iso-2022 variants supported, since i'd like to mix CJK fonts, in
proper glyphs.
you may want to check the latest lib/libc/locale for encoding-
independent multibyte handling. not sure if it fits well into the
kernel.
itojun