Comment 10 for bug 191451

Oh, and to answer Colin about console-setup (which is about console mode, isn't it?), in fact there are problems there too but far less important (IMHO) than in boot and graphic mode. This is because Vietnamese people are used to type without accents and so can deal with it if required.

But ideally, we would need at a minimum correct accentuated characters display in console mode, which should be easily provided by just choosing some Vietnamese font like Vietnamese-Fixed or viscii10 or any other containing all Vietnamese pre-composed characters. I did'nt test this part much though...

Requiring Unicode Level 2 for combining characters in console would be too much I guess, since the Linux kernel console code probably don't handle it, but we don't really need it anyway: pre-composed characters are enough to display any Vietnamese word correctly.

About Vietnamese typing in console mode, we'll probably have to wait for the next Ubuntu release because we do not have any good solution to propose right now. We know of some, like using kernel module or library preloading, but personally I really dislike these kind of solutions and I'm looking for something more like tty input processing interception in user space.

Cheers, J.C.