Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2007 20:33:35 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver |
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Hi!
> > Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make > > any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text > > correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 > > characters? > > I've no idea -- I haven't used the VGA text-mode console for years > either. I rarely even sit in front of a box on which it even works -- > all the workstations I have these days are PowerPC, and use fbdev.
Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok?
(Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users afaict?)
> > And how about serial terminals? > > It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?
He probably means serial terminals... like physical vt100. I used to have one (vt302 compatible or something). Most emulators still emulate vt100, and yes, vt100 predates utf-8. Pavel
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