Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:49:46 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <8cg8ta$2qvu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> 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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G. Adam Stanislav <adam@whizkidtech.net> 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). Actually, if you can spare an attribute bit you can handle 512 characters in text mode on a plain VGA card. pcvt(4) uses this to keep all of CP437, ISO Latin 1, various DEC character sets, and a range of definable characters available. > I see the main way of supporting Unicode in providing libraries that > programs can use to convert between Unicode and local display. ... and to handle UTF-8. Yes. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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