From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 18: 2:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (rh18.bfm.org [216.127.220.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E79C37B8EA for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id UAA00285; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:00:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:59:55 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000404195955.B261@whizkidtech.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:08:56PM +0300 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE X-SG-Player-ID: 0278852114 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:08:56PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >Of course, it still remains to be seen if having Unicode support on the >console is a Good Thing(TM). I don't see how it would be even possible, due to hardware limitations. The console can only support an 8-bit font (I mean 8-bit encoding). If you change it for one character, you change it for everything on the console. And this was designed by *International* Business Machines! :) I see the main way of supporting Unicode in providing libraries that programs can use to convert between Unicode and local display. I did some of it with my i18ntools. I wanted to do more, but could not due to health reasons, as mentioned already. I am in a better shape now, and hopefully will be able to resume the work I started. But it won't happen in the near future for reasons other than else (mostly because I am broke and am concentrating my programming efforts on software I can sell - but when my current project is completed, I will *probably* do more work on Unicode support for FreeBSD). Cheers, Adam -- Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I'm repeating myself... -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message