On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:47 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > I'll also note that there are other solutions to the font encoding > > problem, such as what Keith Packard did for Twin. > > ? >
http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/twin-ols2005/ > >> I also suggest that somebody resubmit the Unicode proposal for > >> the 12 precomposed characters needed for Yoruba. It was rejected > >> on 1996-Sep-07, over a decade ago. 12 is hardly anything. Without > >> these characters, Yoruba might be unworkable on the console. > > > > It's not clear that console support for Yoruba is very > > interesting/useful; having it in terminal emulators seems likely > > sufficient for most people. > > Can we say the same for French, German, and Spanish? People seem > to like having non-ASCII filenames and even process names. Yes, and they don't have to display on the console; only geeks use the Linux console for anything other than initial booting. - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
