From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 19 6:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D47CA37B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:29:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 10229 invoked by uid 666); 19 Apr 2001 13:32:11 -0000 Received: from i181-078.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.181.78) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 19 Apr 2001 13:32:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3ADEE806.43216916@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:28:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal References: <20010419154827.A52282@nagual.pp.ru> <200104191154.f3JBsqV10841@freebsd.dk> <20010419160300.A52373@nagual.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > > > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > > > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently > > > present. This way minimizes arcane information needed for user to setup > > > its language correctly. > > > > > > Any objections? > > > > Wont work, it needs to be in the (IIRC) 0xd0 - 0xe0 range for the > > HW to DTRT with the ninth bit on VGA HW. > > It works for years, just making small vertical black line sometimes > appearse in the cursor. > > > The has been beaten to death several times before, check the archives... > > We just add yet one conflicting language - Ukrainian. How many you want > to change this decision? Breaking letters is more important than black > line in the cursor. also breaks Hungarian (for some capital letters) -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message