Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 15:41:20 +0200 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enlarge the storage of chars in virtual terminal |
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:11:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:55:04 +0800 > Frank Pan <frankpzh@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > The motivation is display much more characters on the > > framebuffer console than 512. If this is done, foreign > > languages can be easily rendered with currently supported > > utf-8 encoding. > > This has been suggested a couple of times but unfortunately it's not > enough to use bigger fonts. Rendering many non western languages is far > far more complex. In addition the text mode vt driver is limited to 512 > symbols by the hardware.
The Unicode book should be required reading for anyone who starts talking about displaying utf-8/unicode text. It's a *very* interesting book with way more than code charts in it[1].
OG.
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