Re: GRUB plans...

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:54:10 -0700,
address@hidden wrote:
> Are you planning on completing your VM86 implementation in the
> reasonably near future?  If not, I could complete/robustify mine.

No. Please finish up your own implementation! I'd look at yours. :)

> I think we talked a little bit about I18N before, but essentially I still
> know next-to-nothing about I18N support other than the idea of using a
> UTF-8 -like Unicode/ISO-10646 set, which I understand doesn't work very
> well for many of the "asian" languages.

I think the problem in Unicode is that it is not appropriate for the
original aim, "unifying all the characters in the world". Unicode can
be assumed as an attempt towards M17N, but it failed in that. However,
IMHO, Unicode is not so bad for I18N, since it covers (almost) all
characters in each language it supports, as long as we use Unicode for a
single language at a time.

For example, the infamous "unification" can be annoying, because many
unified characters are not identical among Chinese/Korean/Japanese, from
our point of view. (See
<http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/unicode-unihan.html>, for more
information). But if you use one language at a time (this assumption
should be natural for boot loaders), you may use a specific fontset for
your language.

Okuji