Am Luan, 2004-02-02 ag 17:39, scrÃobh Nikolai Prokoschenko: > Hello! > > I must have missed the discussion, as this question should have been > raised several times: If the first stage of the installer uses UTF-8 > anyway, wouldn't it be wiser to configure the second step also into > UTF-8 and thus make UTF-8 the default encoding? > > BTW, I know the console is currently almost uncapable of UTF-8, but > anyway -- it won't ever be, as I see it... Redhat has done the step, > what should be done, so that Debian can also? >
The problem is that it in some circumstances _reduces_ functionality at the moment. With a UTF-8 console you lose the ability to do compose characters (eg. accents). ie a de_DE.ISO_8859-15 locale allows you to enter accents, but a de_DE.UTF-8 one doesn't: the problem is that the kernel ABI (even in 2.6) defines (char base, char diactritic) -> char result_char (See struct kbdiacr in /usr/include/linux/kd.h) This works for simple 8-bit locales (eg ISO-8859, ru_KOI8), etc but breaks UTF-8, which requires strings. Using UTF-8 makes X11 easier but breaks console functionality. Lets go to UTF-8 by default when either (1) the kernel is fixed (2) We jump straight to X. - Alastair McKinstry > -- > Nikolai Prokoschenko > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
