Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:59:31 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <v04210107b51023438e65@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004032038040.7178-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr>
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At 5:08 PM +0300 4/4/00, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > ... I have found myself in the need to write in English, >Modern Greek (one accent), and Ancient Greek (many accents). This >is not possible using 8-bit fonts, since the glyphs for the accented >ancient greek alone are much more than 128. > >Of course, it still remains to be seen if having Unicode support >on the console is a Good Thing(TM). I am sure that many an administrator has found themselves staring at the console at some point in their life, and thinking: "This is all Greek to me..." :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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