Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 05:10:09 -0400 (EDT)

> > UTF-8 maps Unicode to a font as Unicode does not specify how a character
> > appears, but rather Unicode differentiates characters from each other.
>
> Huh? UTF-8 has got nothing to do with fonts, it's a way of
> encoding Unicode just like the UDF scheme you described.

I misunderstood UTF-8, which I gathered from unicode.txt to mean
Unicode-To-Font, and that it used tables to map the two. I see from
keyboard.c & console.c that this is wrong.

Anyways the standard has already been set in stone, for better or
for worse. DVD disks are already in production using the format
I described. Same goes for Adaptec DirectCD software, which also
uses UDF (Universal Disk Format).

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Andrew E. Mileski   mailto:aem@netcom.ca