From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 20 11:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F0F37B4C5; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A2D8C5730B; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:50:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:50:33 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Johan Granlund Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I18N Progress, Plans, and Proposals Message-ID: <20001020135033.A39526@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <20001019033252.A31416@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from johan@granlund.nu on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:38:47PM +0200 X-FreeBSD-Header: This is a subliminal message from the vast FreeBSD conspiracy project. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD peorth.iteration.net 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:38:47PM +0200, Johan Granlund scribbled: | On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > At the BSDCon I18N BOF, we discussed several things that could/should | > happen with the future of I18N(internationalization) in FreeBSD. | > We would like some inputs and comments regarding the following: | > 2. Needing a graphics console to display various character sets. | > There should be a kernel or loader option to start | > a graphics console by default. | The magic word is option :) | We have to be careful to not loose the ability to boot a bare-bone system | if / when having problems. Right, it will/should be an option. | I _still_ like VAX/VMS ability to be "talked" up thru the boot process. Er, *meep* too young to know what you are talking about -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message