Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:26:11 +0200 From: "khachikyan.de" <vahe@khachikyan.de> To: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: scrnmap file for syscons Message-ID: <001301c32955$f93820b0$0700010a@workstation>
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Hi, I just bussy with some localization issue and creating now the screenmap file for the locale. What I found in documentation is that these file is needed for some type of video hardware which doesn't support software font, and that the file defines mapping between character codes. I took a look into screenmap files provided in source tree the us-ascii file looks just like a matrix with everything set to zero exept of printable characters 0x20-0x7e . iso-8859-1 screenmap looks similar but begining from the the matrix address 0xA0 up to the end there are some hex numbers which I couldn't map to something which seems to be meaningful to me. I am not that strong in hardware things so have no clue how does it works. Unfortunately I found no more pointers to information. If the soft fonts are not supported what is mapped to what ? Where the syscons driver gets the information about letter-symbols of that special language in case of non software fonts? Any help is welcome kind regards -- Vahe Khachikyan ---
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