Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:42:36 +0800 From: "Tz-Huan Huang" <tzhuan@csie.org> To: "Alexander Churanov" <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD Message-ID: <6a7033710808300142o1b253c6cw2e286d42a60e342b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> <200808281718.m7SHISGL067492@lurza.secnetix.de> <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/8/28 Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> >> >> Right now, a Chinese sysadmin cannot simply go to a FreeBSD >> console, run mutt and read mails from his co-workers that >> contain Chinese characters. This *does* work fine with >> Linux. This is clearly an area where FreeBSD is lacking. > > Tz-Huan, > Could you comment on this? Does Linux really display and render all Chinese > glyphs corectly? Do they have video card compatibility issues? How about > top-to-bottom rendering? Is it actually used or useful in China and Taiwan? Hi, As far as I known Linux's console really support Chinese by change the display to graphics mode through framebuffer[1]. It should be no video card compatibility issue if the video card supports VESA well (most cards support it well I think). How much Chinese glyphs it can render depends on the coverage of the bitmap fonts, so it should be possible to render all glyphs if the fonts are available. However, I have never used this feature in Linux. All linux systems I manage have either X (desktop) or just text-mode console (server) like FreeBSD. So I don't think this feature is very useful for me. The debian installer use this feature to support Chinese and other language interfaces, it might be useful for a newbie to install an unfamiliar OS. Besides that, there are less benefits to support this I think. IMHO your schedules looks fine to me. :-) Tz-Huan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer
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