Re: console UTF-8 fixes

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 15:20:42 EST



On Jul 24 2007 23:47, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
>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 :
>
>ÂÂQuoting 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)

That got merged AFAICS...
759448f459234bfcf34b82471f0dba77a9aca498

please check :)


Jan
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