From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 14:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BA737BB76 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id XAA11370 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:43:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA93191 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:49:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:49:46 +0200 Message-ID: <8cg8ta$2qvu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <3.0.6.32.20000403221617.008e2500@mail85.pair.com> <20000404170856.A524@hades.hell.gr> <20000404195955.B261@whizkidtech.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G. Adam Stanislav 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