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Subject: Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can!
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On Tuesday 14 July 2009 12:10:53 Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > Is this an acronym or are we getting Dutchionalized kernel options? :)
>
> The latter. `Tekenen' is the Dutch verb for drawing. libteken is a
> library I wrote last year to emulate an xterm-like terminal with UTF-8.
> I modified it, so it can be used with cons25 and 8-bit character sets.
> Even though the name suggests it draws stuff, it doesn't. It only turns
> a stream of bytes into character placement calls.

Would there be a screen font yet for Unicode? share/syscons/fonts doesn't show 
me one. Or do you plan to retain mapping multibyte to 8-bit positions?

-- 
Mel