Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:03:02 -0500 (EST) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Unicode console patch |
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Stanislav V. Voronyi writes: > In message <790f3b$3le$1@palladium.transmeta.com> H. Peter Anvin writes: >> By author: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl> >>> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Stanislav V. Voronyi wrote: >>> >>>> one useful feature from my patch - get/set all variables concerning to >>>> traslations (translate,charset,G0_charset,G1_charset,utf) with help of >>>> two additional TIOCLINUX ioctls. >> >> Please don't extend TIOCLINUX. It was a bad mistake to begin with, >> and furthermore, we're trying to move away from ioctl()s (ioctl()s >> were used because most changes affected *all* consoles. Per-console >> changes should be done with escape codes.)
There must be a reasonable way for getty to reset the console to a state defined by the admin. That includes fonts, translation tables and keymaps. Secure login is important.
>> I'm working on a completely new console spec that is ISO >> 2022-compliant (the current console isn't, and cannot be made to be.)
What about scrolling? We have a fairly basic bug that vttest exposes. IMHO it is more important to make Linux 2.2 vt100 compatible.
(start the latest vttest in 80x25.80 mode and test "screen accordian")
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