Unicode and the Unix Console?

Phactorial asks: "At it's current state, most UNIX consoles (not graphical terminal emulators, mlterm is out for this) I have dealt with do not handle unicode properly. This is essential when it comes to dealing with languages that require characters that are not in the current ASCII set. I was wondering if anyone out there is developing a solution for non-Linux platforms. I know the Arabeyes project is currently working on a project called 'Akka' which provides UTF-8 (kinda) support and even shaping and bidirectional code (essential for many languages in the East, the program works fine and I am working on getting a FreeBSD port out). However, I was pondering, how are other UNIX consoles doing? Do any of them fully support unicode, even bidirectional characters? shaping? (a great many of today's UNIX applications lack many if not all of these ;(). If you know of such applications or are working on support for a platform, could you give feedback as to your experiences and thoughts on the current state of the UNIX console?"

Comments

YOU FAIL IT

[Anonymous Coward]

And by a larger than normal margin this time.

I'd say better luck next time, but you are an FPer, so maybe not.

Screw you all

[Ark42]

Im serious, learn english and deal with an 8bit character set where only the lower 7bits are guarenteed. It works for me so it can work for you too.