Re: [gentoo-dev] enable UTF8 per default?

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Alexander Simonov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:24:26AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
>> Well there are a few problems, but yes I cannot name them now.
>> Using Japanese, Cyrillic and English in a few encodings each is a big
>> nightmare.
>>
> 
> It's true! We in xUSSR use KOI8-R, KOI8-U, CP1251 ( aka Windows-1251),
> CP866.
> 
>> Nowadays I try to move everything to UTF-8, but there are those
>> windoze users
>> and webdevs that make all Japanese in Shift_JIS ... So support of wide
>> range of
>> encodings is a must, but UTF-8 is the truth.
>>
>>> The only thing that's nasty: we don't have any good utf8-fonts for
>>> the console.
>> And not only the console.
>> Even for xterm there are not many good fonts (known to me) that
>> display both Japanese
>> and Cyrillic in regular and bold. Currently there is only on
>> combination that works for me.
>>
> What about terminus and UniCyr (unicode font from console-tools-cyrillic)?
> I am use this fonts and most of russian speaking people says what this
> font is the best font for cyrilic charsets.
> I am don't see any issues in fonts for me.
Yes, then the problem is with Japanese...

>> So fonts, font config and related stuff is what has to be fixed first.

Kalin.
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