Oh, and to answer Colin about console-setup (which is about console
mode, isn't it?), in fact there are problems there too but far less
important (IMHO) than in boot and graphic mode. This is because
Vietnamese people are used to type without accents and so can deal with
it if required.

But ideally, we would need at a minimum correct accentuated characters
display in console mode, which should be easily provided by just
choosing some Vietnamese font like Vietnamese-Fixed or viscii10 or any
other containing all Vietnamese pre-composed characters. I did'nt test
this part much though...

Requiring Unicode Level 2 for combining characters in console would be
too much I guess, since the Linux kernel console code probably don't
handle it, but we don't really need it anyway: pre-composed characters
are enough to display any Vietnamese word correctly.

About Vietnamese typing in console mode, we'll probably have to wait for
the next Ubuntu release because we do not have any good solution to
propose right now. We know of some, like using kernel module or library
preloading, but personally I really dislike these kind of solutions and
I'm looking for something more like tty input processing interception in
user space.

Cheers, J.C.

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