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