Unicode support in shell

[ahmad hassan]

Hello,

I am using ash shell and have an ncurses application running over it. So i 
think its kernel mode  tty i am using. I have also added the unicode pages 
for CJK and UTF8 from kernel. Now what do i have to do to make the unicode 
characters like japanese characters get displayed. I have the japanese 
string as ANSI file and i have to read the string resources and just display 
them in appropriate charset. One thing more just by adding kernel mode 
support for western languagues i had them displayed appropriately.

Best Regards,
Ahmad.


>From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
>To: busybox at busybox.net
>CC: "ahmad hassan" <guideveloper123 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Unicode support in shell
>Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:41:14 -0500
>
>On Friday 21 October 2005 02:38, ahmad hassan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using busybox to make a mini linux distribution and i am using ash
> > shell. Now i want to see files having CJK(Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
> > content in them. I am using the ash shell.
> > Anybody can tell me how to achieve that. I am making an ncurses based
> > application on the console.
> >
> > Should i add support for unicode at kernel level, console level or 
>ncurses
> > level and how.
>
>In theory it could also go at the C library level. :)
>
>Busybox doesn't currently have any special support for unicode, but I don't
>think we need it for this.  What program is displaying your text?  (Is it a
>kernel text-mode tty, or an Xterm, or...?)  That's what I'd focus on first,
>getting some kind of "hello world" string to print out in the appropriate
>character set.
>
> > Thank You.
>
>Rob

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