Unicode support in shell

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Oct 26 21:10:08 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 26 October 2005 02:30, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> Taking a look at the loadkeys and dumpkeys source, it looks as though
> it'll be pretty horrible to port - the loadkeys code is in a Bison
> wrapper, so something seems to be determined in the compile process
> that changes the way the program runs...
> Still, I'll have a go if anyone has a desperate need.
>
> Rob

Often it's easier to write a brand new implementation from the spec and the 
man pages than to try to untangle somebody else's source that's just 
pathologically miswritten.  (I.E. most FSF code.)

I'd just put it on the TODO list for now.

Rob



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