From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:31:27 GMT
In <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
>>>> Has anyone in this newsgroup ever heard of the Unicode/ISO10646
>>>> (UCS) standard?
>>>
>>>You know, if 386BSD could be made to support NET-UTF (the Plan 9 version
>>>of the 10646 standard) that would be a major advantage over commercial
>>>Unices...
>>One of the big criticism leveled at US Engineers is that they are either
>>too dumb or lazy to build into their software support for non-Western
>>scripts. Given that Linux originates in Europe, can we look forward to
>>better support for Unicode and ISO10646? At least for "long" charac-
>>ter definitions?
>Yeah, that's probably why NT supports Unicode, it's those dumb US
>Engineers... Could we lay off idiotic generalizations and stick to
>technical aspects of the software? It's business that dictates what's
>included in the package. If it makes economic sense, it will be there.
>Most of the internationalization is done locally anyway, so it has
>nothing to do with dumb engineers.
>t.
We probably have a chance to add multilingual support into 386bsd, this
is towards what I'am aiming at. I intend to add an experimental part
into the next version of the console driver codrv, with the work title
"/dev/unicode" which is basically a virtual console (in graphics mode)
which accepts and emits 16bit-Unicode characters. What I need is the
complete mapping of the first BMP of ISO10646 DIS 1.2. I have it in
parts only (the major european Latin mappings). But the BMP also includes
Asian character sets, which I do not know. I could hack in the entire
ISO10646 draft paper, but for some reasons I am reluctant to do this :-)
What I like to have is both a computer readable version of the tables and
a (X11R5-) bdf font with the proper mapping.
If someone has these things, please send it to me (or at least point me to
such code).
Holger
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