nanogui@linuxhacker.org

Subject: Re: Fonts and keyboard support
From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:22:28 +0000 (GMT)

> That leaves UCS-2, which can't encode all unicode characters, or UTF-8 which 
> can... 

The internet is heavily UTF8 based.

> >we agree that kbd data should be sent to the app as UNICODE, so  
> >we're going to have to convert UNICODE anyway...  
>  
> Yes. 

Convert the unicode before you compile, then your binaries will be more compact. A flash
disk full of alternate letters and zeros isnt my idea of perfection