[debian-devel:11798] utf-8 for installer (Re: [i8n] Latin 2 fonts need modification in rootdisk.sh)

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

佐野＠浜松です。

 boot-floppies / installer での utf-8 の利用についての話題。
 debian-boot ML より。

In article <20000301095339.C14137@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
  at Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:53:39 +0000,
   on Re: [i8n] Latin 2 fonts need modification in rootdisk.sh,
 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> さん writes:

(snip)
> > > > > And probably we should do something different in woody.
> > > > 
> > > > Like what?  A less-limited kernel console driver?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure. I expect there are already plans. One possibility would
> > > be to ignore the kernel console driver and use a user-space program
> > > instead. You need that for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc anyway, so
> > > you might as well have all languages using the same user-space program
> > > with UTF-8, wide characters, etc. I have a version of slang that runs
> > > in a UTF-8 xterm. I use it with mutt for reading e-mail; it's nice to
> > > see Russian, Chinese, etc all working properly with no
> > > language-specific hacks required ...
> > 
> > I don't think you're going to see UTF-8-based boot-floppies in woody.
> 
> Yes, we might have to wait till whatever comes after woody, or even
> the one after that. It really depends on what the Chinese, Japanese,
> Koreans, etc, want. If they want to continue using language-specific
> encodings for a few more years, then they can, of course. But
> eventually they will move to UTF-8 and I prefer to join them at that
> point rather than continue to suffer the inconveniences of 8-bit
> charsets.
> 
> Edmund

 Woody 向けには、なんかうまい方法が提案できるといいですね。

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    <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx> : Taketoshi Sano (佐野　武俊)