Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/39252: Syscons doesn't support 8-bit control characters Message-ID: <200206141020.g5EAK4t33130@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/39252; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: kern/39252: Syscons doesn't support 8-bit control characters Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:15:20 +0400 On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:06:57 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Jun-14 04:08:23 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote: > >Because 0x9b will be in conflict with national character sets. > > For which national character sets? 0x80 thru 0x9f are reserved for For example: KOI8-R, KOI8-U, CP866, CP437 > Microsoft defined graphics for all 256 character positions, but > syscons treats 0x00 thru 0x1f as control characters so the handling > is already inconsistent. There is no national characters among lower controls for every charset I know. > Maybe syscons needs some way to be told what are graphic characters and > what can be interpreted as control characters. As for VTxxx there can be escape sequence to turn 8bit controls on/off or vidcontrol flag, all with defaults to off. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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