Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:13:29 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: VT console need rewrite |
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Hi!
> > And the code itself, if you'll excuse me, it isn't as beautiful as rest > > of the kernel. > > So, it really really need a clean rewrite.I'm ganna take is hard job. > > And, please tell me if is worth to do so. > > To be honest I have doubts its worth it. This was discussed years and > years ago and the conclusion back then that people who need unicode > fonts should use them in X or another graphical console environment > (there are plenty to chose from these days). Has this changed?
Yes. These days kernel sources and kernel messages both contain non-ASCII characters... as well as many filesystems. Pavel
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