UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can!

[Kamigishi Rei]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> Another option would be to dynamically remap the 256 text-mode characters as
> needed, similar to how the mouse cursor is displayed.  The average
> single-language console will have much less than 256 unique characters
> onscreen at once at any one time, so the average console will rarely have a
> phyical character remapped once a glyph has been assigned to it.  Any more
> than 256 onscreen at once could be replaced with a special symbol or
> remapped to a similar character if possible.  You could even preferentially
> replace symbol/line-drawing characters first, and try and preserve
> characters in the area around the cursor
This is probably true for European countries, however I can easily 
imagine a situation where I have much more than 256 different characters 
on my screen - f.ex. reading a website in Links; it will have latin 
characters (numbers, symbols, punctuation marks) in URLs and kana & 
kanji as the text itself.

So a completely Unicode-compatible solution would be much more preferred.
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Kamigishi Rei
KREI-RIPE