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Unicode and the Unix Console?

Posted by Cliff on from the moving-beyind-ASCII dept.

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?"

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha

  2. Re:YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't usually do FPs, but I just couldn't resist this one. (Actually, I could have, but I didn't want to.) And when I submitted it, there were no other posts.

  3. Re:YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    race condition!!! (Not only were there no other posts for you, but there were probably no other posts for either of the people who ended up above you. So you did your calculation without a spinlock, and only one of three threads ended up with a calculation consistent with the actual state of things. [the other two, including yours] had data [state-of-the-universe] changed from under them while you were busy "calculating". This is the same thing that happens when nine people simultaneously up-mod a +2 post because it's SO funny that if a moderator looks at it, she is sure to mod it up, and +2 is already above the threshold of most moderators. Thank you for your time.)

  4. Re:Nonsense by Jon+Peterson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Arg. I meant to say "This is the best post I've read on /. for a very long time."

    You preview your post 3 times to get the HTML right and you still forget to read your own words!

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  5. Theres only one language necessary... by Chexsum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shell scripting language.

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  6. Re:Nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You forgot: "If we had elected [Strom Thurmond] all those years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today."