From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 20:25:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802CF1065678 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0678E8FC13 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so644556eyi.7 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=ocqPmga//m8UZpsI6ATF4sqfS0eArJmuGaYMhN9qg6A=; b=rz8OKZlrLevX18zWGtqWh5Fgt7U01ojvRwmgNBy7oLXLHnHRa27kUIzM2jVG2M9iAj 8pppNbvrKyX2cJyK3erVPT0uvVJGo1N/GtGkBAdB6Uv9Z79GWdogTKZv2j9busK6f1Lz /OVy7IekJ8qU+WiAaSSyclr12kSVikaPZTJ2A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=riYd9kI6LEIJPWpQO/l1Rq0pbcI5qsumj3ckJxA/W2uHzb3GsBTi6jtcDwNdAAd7eU afZY/tP7I+euz+yv+clm9+VBX28cv0FuGEmXiICJhL8o/cZl6Ippv+GbriytuKZtnVlT dQ1EHM4JLY7FwKp6K/2XX5hzDuJbgWhZ0/fOA= Received: by 10.210.19.4 with SMTP id 4mr5346679ebs.134.1220214302625; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.130.15 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808311325i1c09a85at22faa7c71d83104@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:25:02 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" To: "Tz-Huan Huang" In-Reply-To: <6a7033710808300142o1b253c6cw2e286d42a60e342b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> <200808281718.m7SHISGL067492@lurza.secnetix.de> <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com> <6a7033710808300142o1b253c6cw2e286d42a60e342b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:25:04 -0000 2008/8/30 Tz-Huan Huang > As far as I known Linux's console really support Chinese by change the > display to graphics mode through framebuffer[1]. It should be no video > card compatibility issue if the video card supports VESA well (most cards > support it well I think). How much Chinese glyphs it can render depends on > the coverage of the bitmap fonts, so it should be possible to render all > glyphs if the fonts are available. > > However, I have never used this feature in Linux. All linux systems I > manage > have either X (desktop) or just text-mode console (server) like FreeBSD. > So I don't think this feature is very useful for me. The debian installer > use > this feature to support Chinese and other language interfaces, it might be > useful for a newbie to install an unfamiliar OS. Besides that, there are > less > benefits to support this I think. > > IMHO your schedules looks fine to me. :-) > > Tz-Huan > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer > Thank you. Alexander Churanov