Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:02:04 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000405170204.A99874@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20000404195955.B261@whizkidtech.net>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:59:55PM -0500 References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004032038040.7178-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> <20000404195955.B261@whizkidtech.net>
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You, G. Adam Stanislav, were spotted writing this on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:59:55PM -0500: > 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! :) a) VGA actually supports 512-characters fonts; this is not currently supported by FreeBSD, but can be. b) FreeBSD supports "raster modes", which are graphics VGA modes used as if they were text modes -- the characters gets drawn very quickly by the VGA renderer code using their representation in the font file (it is my understanding, though I might be wrong, that Linux doesn't support these). In these modes, you could draw arbitrarily many different glyphs at the same time, once Unicode support is added. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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