28.11.2010 22:46, Ted Ts'o wrote: > How many people do regular login, development, reading e-mail, etc., > on the console? Very few! Once I broke the euro symbol in the kbd keymaps and got a kick in the ass very quickly :). It means that users continue to use the console quite active. Another example: I keep getting a new keymaps and console fonts for each new kbd release. Maybe not a lot of console users, but more of them than you think. > If the answer is because you hate X, as > you've already pointed out, we already have fbterm. Where is it > written that we need to have a full unicode-capable console system? fbterm âcan't help in all cases. For example: we have a limitation NR_KEYS, which makes it impossible to use keycode > 256 in keymaps. I've already received several complaints about it. -- Rgrds, legion -- 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
