4 ms·
I don't get how a lack of Unicode support has anything to do with making an OS shell that's visually ugly and old-fashioned. There's a difference between being
by msla 5y ago
I don't get how a lack of Unicode support has anything to do with making an OS shell that's visually ugly and old-fashioned.
There's a difference between being ugly and being broken.
- layer8 5y agoSimplicity. Full Unicode support is horridly complex.
- KerrAvon 5y agoWhat does it mean in practice, though? Only ASCII is supported by the UI layer? Latin-1? MacRoman?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- throwaway984393 5y agoThe window manager seems to do a bunch of different things, some with files and input, so basically it would expect non-UTF text for those operations
- layer8 5y agoIn the early days you’d just replace the font to get whatever interpretation you want. :)
- Maken 5y agoIt uses really old bitmap fonts, with no fallback for missing symbols and no way to incorporate accents, diacriticals or essentially anything but ASCII characters. Under these circunstances lack of Unicode support is a given.