Re: [PATCH] Fix console utf8 composing

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Just for the archive...
> >
> > On Tuesday, 9. May 2006 09:49, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > > Both the current situation and my patch share the defect that an accent 
> > > cannot be put on top of a multibyte character, such as Greek letter alpha.
>
> With 80x25, that [almost] would not be possible either because of the 256 
> character limit. Of course the concern is totally valid for fbterm.

This concern is totally valid for the 80x25 console and the standard "gr" keymap:

compose '\'' 'Î' to 'Î'

and the Î character is indeed present in the iso07.16 font and used in *.po 
files from console-tools.

--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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