Re: [MiNT] Some notes on fVDI and UTF (system) fonts

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 16:07 +0100, Bohdan Milar wrote:
> So is there really no way to finish implementing Unicode in MiNT?

What do you mean by that? In what way do you want MiNT to support
unicode?

> But possibility of processing UTF data or running UTF CLI apps in shell would massively
> increase the compatibility with PCs (personal data and Linux CLI applications).

You can simply add "your local keymap" -> UTF translation table to
TosWin. It already supports bi-directional Atari<->ISO 8859-1
translation.

> Each application will have to handle the UTF data itself (like HighWire does), but will also
> be able to handle ISO-8859-x (or other 8bit coding) data simply by changing the font
> in the app (not the system one!)

Yes! This is the correct approach. Then there is no need to modify
anything at all to support local charsets in the AES itself. Just create
a proper keyboard.tbl and use the correct AES font.

Jo Even