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SubjectRe: Unicode support on VGA console.
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Followup to:  <199910060402.NAA04355@pwd.chroot.org>
By author: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@chroot.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> User space or kernel space, wherever it is, it would be good to
> support large character sets (whatever the code is, Unicode would be
> OK) in console.
>

No question, but I believe the proper solution is fbcon for
medium-sized character set, and kcon (a user-space console driver
used by East Asian Linux distributions) for very large character sets
-- in the latter case you need swappability.

-hpa
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