On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:16:39PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:06:21PM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote:

> > Thank you.  I also have a need to be able to write UTF-8 on my non-X

> > systems.  Do you have any thoughts on the matter?

>

> We don't have a console that supports utf8 for now.

> ncurses also needs some complicated update before it will

> be able to deal with wide characters...

>

> Things are not as easy as they would seem...

I'm sorry I can't just shut up and code, but if UTF-8 support is

planned, could it be implemented in such a way that it doesn't cause a

slow-down on old hardware if it is not needed.  I ran into that on

Debian when they defaulted to UTF-8.  Luckily, I was able to remove

their locales package after setting LANG=C; with locales and UTF-8

support, every app was very slow on my PII-233.
Doug.