Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:13:26 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish |
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On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Erik Corry wrote: > > > Anyone interested in making an Xterm that supports the > > Minimum European Subset of Unicode > > <http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/mes.html> and adding > > similar support to the Linux console. For compatibility, we > > No not the console. Any unicode or whatever... on the console will always > remain an ugly hack. As usless as the current unicode support on the > console. PEOPLE JUST DON'T REALIZE: > > Character based terminals are at best 8-BIT Dot! Point! > > > (Tell me just how to display Chinese on my european console....) > > Not even a single bit more. An XTERM variant would be a good thing and the > only thing to go for. But I see no need AND use for anything unicode > related in the kernel. > about the single bit more... grep 512 drivers/char/vga.c [in your linux source tree damn it;)]
also 18 bit colors work well on console... (0x3da,0x3c8,0x3c9) (if you didn't get it you can have at least 360 (400-safety) out of 'em "simultaneously" on screen... as long as you want to waste cpu time;) anyway vga has some funny features that the console can use if needed...
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