Re: console update

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:02:06AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > But I think we should hope for actual Unicode compliance.  Obviously I
> > don't insist we have it now.  But I object to an architectural
> > decision that will make it harder...
> 
> We will have unicode normalization form C and unicode support level 1.
> This basically means: No compose characters, no double-width characters.
> No bidirectional writing either.

I think we should hope for full compliance.  I'm happy to say that we
only do level 1 at the beginning.  But we should aim for ultimately
having full compliance...

> The architectural decision we are making right now is how the
> communication protocol between the console server and the client is in
> this first version.  And because we all agree that a screen matrix of
> the character cell is the right thing, this is what we use right now.

I think this is the wrong thing, but it's a reasonable first
implementation.  As long as you don't wed the protocol to this
assumption.

As long as the protocol passes characters, things are fine.  Just
don't start having it pass glyphs instead!