Re: New Solaris 7 features

Mathew G Monroe (mmex+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:08:01 -0500 (EST)


Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 11-Nov-98 Re: New Solaris
7 features by Chip Salzenberg@perlsupp
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> What could Unicode have to do with the kernel? I don't get it.

Translation from keyboards to unicode (ie keyboard drivers). Display of
Unicode. XWindoes has its own support... but do we want to support
unicode on the console? Filesystem, do they support unicode. Those are
the three areas I can see where unicode deals this the kernel. Right
now the kernel just assumes if it is unicode its in UTF8 form, do we
want to change to UCS2 (or UCS4)?

I assume right now the answer to all of these except the keyboards is
no. But the kernel can support unicode more directly if we want it to.

Matt

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