Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750932AbVLYVNM (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:13:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750933AbVLYVNM (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:13:12 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:2002 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750931AbVLYVNK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:13:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:13:08 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" cc: LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix console utf8 composing In-Reply-To: <43AE2B06.4010906@ums.usu.ru> Message-ID: References: <43AE2B06.4010906@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 25 > Differences between our versions are described below. What do you think we should do? I have not given this fix any thought, because it applied fine for long time (+/- fuzz), so I cannot comment on anything in your version being better or not. > My version of to_utf8() takes uint as a second argument and handles values > beyonf 0xffff. I doubt that there is reason to support characters beyond 0xffff. CJK is within 0xffff, besides that console fonts just do not have the capacity to support CJK in a meaningful way. Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/