Doesn't the GECOS field already cover some of this use case?
Doesn't the GECOS field already cover some of this use case?
Posted Dec 10, 2024 6:39 UTC (Tue) by pvaneynd (subscriber, #898)In reply to: Doesn't the GECOS field already cover some of this use case? by taladar
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It's even worse then that. You need to know which language a text is in to know which fonts to use to display it.
The main cause of this is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification in unicode, which maps different Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese characters to the same unicode code point.So the whole "let's juse use UTF-8" isn't remotely enough :(.
The main cause of this is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification in unicode, which maps different Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese characters to the same unicode code point.So the whole "let's juse use UTF-8" isn't remotely enough :(.