From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 15:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C07D37B8B7 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA218776; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:58:49 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:59:31 -0400 To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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