On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:13:47PM -0400, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: > Any Unicode character will fit in 21 bits, so you have plenty of bits > left over for attirbutes of various sorts. Furthermore, the Unicode > standard guarantees that this will alwasy be so.
Is this also true for UCS-4? Because that is what wchar_t is on GNU systems. It would be nice if you could verify that. I feel a bit uncomfortable with overloading the wchar this way, because it does not allow you to run iconv_t on the mapped memory, you have to copy it first. But it might be an option. > They yucky bit is when you consider characters with width not equal to > one. CJK ideographs are twice as wide as Latin charactes, and > composing characters generally occupy the same cell as the base > character. This breaks the model with one character per cell, > unfortunately. We won't support that for this very reason in the first version of the console. Like on GNU/Linux, we will focus on Unicode support level 1 and normalization form C. (Hope I got this right, I am citing these from memory :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
