Re: UTF8 (Was: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2))

[James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:53 AM, der Mouse wrote:

> > ... which in turn brings up the question of adding UTF-8 support in
> > wscons, creating/finding UTF-8 console fonts, etc.
>
> There really is no such thing as a UTF-8 font.  Fonts are mappings
> between codepoints and glyphs, not between encodings and glyphs.
> (Actually, strictly, they _are_ mappings between encodings and glyphs,
> but all existing font machinery uses simple integer encodings, with no
> way to even represent variable-length encodings such as UTF-8.  Well,
> as far as I know, at least - I'd be very interested to hear of any
> exceptions.)

OS/X seems to have no problem displaying UTF-8 data sent to a terminal  
window for instance.

(I work with UTF-8 all the time internationalizing at work)

James