2010/11/26 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> ÂI know there are most people speaking only English, and never meet >> non-ASCII characters on console. But, hey , what about others ? > > Like the people who have never met Indic languages or half-space using > languages, or Arabic or right to left/left to right mixed or ... > >> ÂSo, here is the solution: Making framebuffer console handle UNICODE font in >> kernel. > > It isn't really a solution - the rendering rules for Unicode are extremely > complex, this is why things like Pango exist to do it in user space. > > Alan > Hey, just support very basic rendering. that should fix most situations. If ascii fits 90% situations, then this UNICODE support should fit 99% situations. It don't make console display urgly glyph. Users who want more complex can simply choose gnome-terminal or konsole or blablalba .... This maks it possible to quickly view an UTF-8 text without boring X. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
