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SubjectRe: Internationalizing Linux
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Gavin Peters wrote:
> Wouldn't internetionalization perhaps involve more than a funky
> printf?
>
> I'm thinking here of, for instance, Hebrew which scrolls right to
> left.
>
> Or, worse yet, Chinese, which scrolls top to bottom, and uses quite
> complex pictographs. Is there an obvious place to put Chinese in the
> framebuffer code?

Yes, just write your own fbcon-* routines that can handle 16-bit fonts, and
adapt the generic console layer for 16-bit fonts and left-to-right and
bottom-to-top display output.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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