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Idea
#11079: Console should support Cyrillic
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Written by Nxx the 13 Jul 08 at 11:45.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
While in the GUI you can use Cyrillic easily, it is not supported in the pure console (i.e. outside xorg). While for desktop users it is not too important, it is very important for servers where sometimes there is no xorg and the command line is the only way to deal with it. Sometimes files have names in Cyrillic so you need a way to deal with such files, for example, to copy them or delete without starting GUI.
Also because the most console applications, 'man' files and error messages are translated, they look well under Xorg terminal session, but show complete garbage in console outside Xorg. It's a pitty not to be able even understand what is the error and be unable even to read man files!
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Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Jul 08 at 17:41
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Well, they should just leave their ston eage runic alphabet characters, and adopt the latin alphabet.
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dinar wrote on the 13 Jul 08 at 18:25
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hello i think not only cyrillic but unicode range should be supported
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Nxx wrote on the 13 Jul 08 at 18:52
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"Well, they should just leave their ston eage runic alphabet characters, and adopt the latin alphabet. "
You cannot write all Russian sounds with Latin alphabet.
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Nxx wrote on the 13 Jul 08 at 18:53
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Also Latin is more ancient than Cyrillic.
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dmay wrote on the 14 Jul 08 at 05:29
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sudo apt-get install console-cyrillic && cyr
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nivus wrote on the 14 Jul 08 at 08:04
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:D Eldmannen, do you really think, that latin alphabet is perfect? Have you ever seen armenian alphabet? Scientists think that it is one of the most perfect alphabets, and artists think thst it is one of the most beautiful.
Alphabets are used not only for computers. They are signs of culture and history of nation. Learn first russian, ukrainian or bulgarian, read some great writers in native language, and then say that cyrillic is bad.
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