Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:59:08 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Syscons with xterm emulation: one step closer to UTF-8 support? Message-ID: <20081206155908.GG18652@hoeg.nl>
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--fCcDWlUEdh43YKr8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello all, I may have mentioned this to some people some time ago, but I thought it would be nice to start a thread about this here on -hackers: A couple of weeks ago I started working on a library (libteken) that implements a subset of features (escape sequences) of xterm, our trusty X11 terminal application. I've done most hacking/testing in userspace, but this week I experimented with removing the terminal emulation from syscons and replaced it by the library. The result: - We can finally SSH to other operating systems, network switches, etc. without messing up our terminals. Almost any operating system out there has termcap entries for `xterm', which means stuff should Just Work (tm). - My library only accepts one character set of input: UTF-8. Right now it just directly forwards the character codes to Syscons, hoping Syscons has a character map that is capable of displaying them (which doesn't work). There are still many small issues I have to fix in the terminal emulation library, but also in the Syscons <-> libteken code. I won't commit it on short notice, obviously. If people want to test it, the code is in the MPSAFE TTY branch in Perforce. Diffs are available at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ed/mpsafetty/ My question is if there are people out there who could help me implementing UTF-8 font rendering. I wouldn't have a clue where to start (yet). Yours, --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --fCcDWlUEdh43YKr8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk6oUwACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUWdgCeIww6rDWOB/CFmBiNPs+zL3PP QL0AnRdWa/d+lMy5wxk4jpfsE3GiYY3o =uMGu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fCcDWlUEdh43YKr8--
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