Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)

[J.R. Oldroyd]

On Jun 27, 17:40, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> So you are thinking about the fonts in X11? I thought you are talking  
> about our console font.
> 

Well, I was thinking of the X11 ones.  Yes, I realize they
are loaded from a port of the x.org stuff, so it's x.org's
responsibility to keep these current, and hopefully they are.
But if we ever switch to utf-8 as a default charset, we should
confirm they are up-to-date.  Markus Kuhn is regularly adding 
new characters to these fonts and I do not follow how fast
x.org tracks these updates.

Now you mention it, though, the console support also needs
to be current.  That's one area I/we never checked for utf-8
support here.  You'll notice "to be completed" in the unicode.html
notes in the console section.  If anyone investigates this and
discovers that something doesn't work by default and a config
change needs documenting, feel free to email me and I'll add
details to the unicode.html notes file.

	-jr
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