From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 14 3:20:12 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 34F4937B41B for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5EAK4t33130; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 03:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206141020.g5EAK4t33130@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Andrey A. Chernov" Subject: Re: kern/39252: Syscons doesn't support 8-bit control characters Reply-To: "Andrey A. Chernov" 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: "Andrey A. Chernov" 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" 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