> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Erik Corry wrote:
>
> > Anyone interested in making an Xterm that supports the
> > Minimum European Subset of Unicode
> > <http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/mes.html> and adding
> > similar support to the Linux console. For compatibility, we
>
> No not the console. Any unicode or whatever... on the console will always
> remain an ugly hack. As usless as the current unicode support on the
> console. PEOPLE JUST DON'T REALIZE:
>
> Character based terminals are at best 8-BIT Dot! Point!
>
>
> (Tell me just how to display Chinese on my european console....)
>
> Not even a single bit more. An XTERM variant would be a good thing and the
> only thing to go for. But I see no need AND use for anything unicode
> related in the kernel.
>
about the single bit more...
grep 512 drivers/char/vga.c
[in your linux source tree damn it;)]
also 18 bit colors work well on console... (0x3da,0x3c8,0x3c9)
(if you didn't get it you can have at least 360 (400-safety) out of 'em
"simultaneously" on screen... as long as you want to waste cpu time;)
anyway vga has some funny features that the console can use if needed...