From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 4 11:51:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19253 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 11:51:00 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA19195 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 11:49:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20481; Thu, 4 May 1995 20:49:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA09973 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 1995 20:49:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA24093 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 1995 20:02:32 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505041802.UAA24093@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Another problem with I18N support in sysinstall. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 20:02:32 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <1063.799590239@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 4, 95 05:23:59 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1275 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > If you go with the default font, you get nice looking dialogs and > lousy looking umlauts, accents and such. If you go with an ISO8859-1 > font, you get nice umlauts and accents but the line drawing characters > have gone to hell and the dialogs look terrible. I think it's an inherent problem in syscons. There are only 256 font slots (pcvt uses 512, and remaps everything so most ISO-8859-1 chars can be displayed without a loaded font), and it's a decision question if you want to have the all-singing-all-dancing IBM437 box character crud (instead of single-line box characters as used in VT102), or the i18n features of ISO-8859-1. (Do understand me right: i'm not voting for pcvt as the default driver.) Perhaps the slot range 0x80 - 0x9f (ISO additional control characters) can be used for simple box characters. > P.S. I suddently occurs to me that I've been calling Andrey "Andrew" > for about 2 years now! He used to call himself this way for about 2 years. :) (So it can't be too hard. Maybe i should get a KOI-8 font and use it for every mail to one of our russian friends. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)