From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 09:04:22 2009 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 2E3A91065673 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C018FC13 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so1485418ewy.43 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DyytYO9Rpl4pR6jQPgPpYzgqDLj2wbFh4rA8c8NpUBg=; b=YEHlyqFBKdsKxqIDFtm0v6gc2MdLMi/gXSa0XHLY6cWoBJO7AfUmLt5M6dlEFoXfvm chCznvRWyHPTf0bqYNvi/q7OVe7P0hMiVicn8gVJqOdc/n9m8FBWtqg86wzK+Pu9lkdY zNeec98q5hjx7cJbu9mdxDUHij4Z1x+o1dyPo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=hYJNfli6hiLv19fZtMYyv6qsQzeMIxNiLs9vOQqhPfYlsXiQofjnozOzQZ5IfGzD/A YmtzTeMi3PhMBFhE05YFUoK8xsrsVDmtIjfBlYyrSXda5hGv0CMygexlYA8EKzy7Pm4N tVT/8yjK5QFEW5kErj+BwBvnOL3s8gvOTmJs4= Received: by 10.210.34.2 with SMTP id h2mr6345752ebh.58.1247648660404; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? (87-194-39-182.bethere.co.uk [87.194.39.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm14245069eyx.53.2009.07.15.02.04.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: Ed Schouten In-Reply-To: <20090714201053.GR48776@hoeg.nl> References: <4A5C9CE2.6060801@free.fr> <20090714155513.GO48776@hoeg.nl> <200907141204.12480.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090714201053.GR48776@hoeg.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:04:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1247648658.2437.1716.camel@strangepork.london.mintel.ad> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mel Flynn , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can! 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: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:22 -0000 On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 22:10 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Mel Flynn 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. > > My new console driver also uses libteken to perform the terminal > emulation. > Oh. I thought it strange to name a UTF-8 console driver after a blood sucking parasite ;) Cheers Tom