From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 6 10:39:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5787A37B83C for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA254264; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:38:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000405173037.A460@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20000405173037.A460@sasami.jurai.net> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:38:51 -0400 To: Anatoly Vorobey , Marco van de Voort From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:30 PM -0400 4/5/00, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >Marco van de Voort, wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:10:35PM +0100: > > > > I'm sorry that I maybe missed part of the thread, but what parts > > that of UNICODE support are we thinking of? > >I have suggested adding Unicode support in the keyboard driver and the >vga driver (more precisely, vga and syscons). As a result of such changes: [...assorted good things happen...] >I am willing to do this work, have a good understanding of >the issues involved, etc. However I am neither a committer nor a >member of -core. If -core thinks this whole thing is a Bad Idea, >my changes won't get reviewed and/or committed, and I don't want to >do a lot of work to find out later it won't get into FreeBSD. This >is why I've asked for an endorsement from the People Who Decide >Things: not a guarantee, of course, that whatever I do will be >welcomed, but rather an acknowledgement that this is a Worthy Issue >and if my diffs are working well and answer the needed criteria, >they will be reviewed and committed. I am not a core member, and I can't guarantee what reaction you will get after making such changes. However, I can say that I think the changes would be a good thing, and that if you had the changes made then I think there are several people who would be happy to campaign for their inclusion. (Mind you, the actual implementation might have to change a little as part of that campaign, but there are people who would be interested in seeing this). I doubt anyone would guarantee that your changes would be accepted, but I also doubt that anyone on the core would guarantee to REJECT them just because some people have straw-man problems with unicode. By all means, please see what you can do. It is much easier to debate a specific set of changes than to get into philosophical discussions about the metaphysical desirability of all possible [and not-implemented] solutions to some wider issue. Coordinate your changes with whoever generally works on the console or keyboard support, just so you're not working on a major set of changes at the same time they're working on some unrelated major set of changes. Ignore the raging philosophical debate for now. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message