Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:52:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Internationalizing Linux |
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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
-- 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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