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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>
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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



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