From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 20:42:55 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 BD1A110656BF for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:42:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468318FC15 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:42:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexanderchuranov@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so646199eyi.7 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:42:54 -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=S5EZk15/ycq11yO4G8/Qkfo/nyB+SEe4FQg+aihMRJo=; b=Gw1LlL5Q/+1OmkSi8dRtToXDBzrk0lmDrQWTqHPeyjB5DHC4qusgzQJCzQQpU49lF2 5XPn1FBFpXKPkq8j0QnF3wZ1ZJN9P2lO+X6ZCDhsItTjEE+9yWsqCIxvdQv0aFRmUqKG 8I9CvP+IU2OAl3ybm5KZlOyjrjGJcnO08yXww= 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=BLFwOZGqx9MU/ZcQlOpptJdJJiWpKzhukcofi3SBLSnLZyTMuRdg0wMRv3IeL+PaGp LqHZ/GlqQHy24kC9XLCGjHScVuJSG/Vq0aRrMH45iT/iSDoguWFpmz39LLEbZBFlCMpB JTtREF7uqPFbFVmcQ3VlCYKkd6dwnWgNKsA5M= Received: by 10.210.51.18 with SMTP id y18mr5353089eby.160.1220215374107; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.130.15 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:42:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808311342x2f96e5a6oc04f97cf1362823b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:42:54 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" To: "Peter Jeremy" In-Reply-To: <20080830115559.GM86609@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> <200808281718.m7SHISGL067492@lurza.secnetix.de> <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0808291708l581422c1pdb2e3cb2913ecaa7@mail.gmail.com> <20080830083901.GA2183@medusa.sysfault.org> <20080830115559.GM86609@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> 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 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 20:42:55 -0000 2008/8/30 Peter Jeremy > IMHO, unless we want to embed the equivalent of pango in the kernel, > the only realistic solution is to count unicode codepoints. That's exactly what I want to implement. > It would be useful to know how other implementations work because I > can't see how to avoid some degree of broken-ness without a complete > CTF implementation. If we aim syscons at sysadmins then a degree of > misbehaviour may be acceptable. You are reading my thoughts! > The fonts are available in ports. I'm not sure if there are existing > bit-mapped fonts but a TTF or similar font can be converted to a > bitmap without major effort. Antialiasing would help with legibility. > Also agree. Alexander Churanov