Re: [PATCH] Fix console utf8 composing

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> Differences between our versions are described below.

What do you think we should do? I have not given this fix any thought, 
because it applied fine for long time (+/- fuzz), so I cannot comment on 
anything in your version being better or not.

> My version of to_utf8() takes uint as a second argument and handles values
> beyonf 0xffff.

I doubt that there is reason to support characters beyond 0xffff.
CJK is within 0xffff, besides that console fonts just do not have the 
capacity to support CJK in a meaningful way.



Jan Engelhardt
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