From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 13 18:10:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E8637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5E1A5i32687; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206140110.g5E1A5i32687@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: kern/39252: Syscons doesn't support 8-bit control characters Reply-To: Peter Jeremy Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/39252; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Jeremy To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/39252: Syscons doesn't support 8-bit control characters Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:06:57 +1000 On 2002-Jun-14 04:08:23 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: >Because 0x9b will be in conflict with national character sets. For which national character sets? 0x80 thru 0x9f are reserved for control characters in ISO6429 and ISO8859. Admittedly, IBM and Microsoft defined graphics for all 256 character positions, but syscons treats 0x00 thru 0x1f as control characters so the handling is already inconsistent. Maybe syscons needs some way to be told what are graphic characters and what can be interpreted as control characters. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message