Re: Unicode support on VGA console.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Oct 1999 05:23:05 GMT

Followup to: <19991006140153.A30849@pinguin.crl.go.jp>
By author: Klaus Kudielka <klaus.kudielka@ieee.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> > User space or kernel space, wherever it is, it would be good to
> > support large character sets (whatever the code is, Unicode would be
> > OK) in console.
>
> Has anybody been working on wide-character support for framebuffers?
> Something like a userspace-daemon loading "font pages" into kernel memory
> on demand? Any better ideas?
>
> Or do we have to stick with something like "kon" for the rest of our lives?
>

It wouldn't be *too* hard to make them modules swapped in via kmod,
but if you need that, you might as well do it all in userspace
... that works for scripts like Indic and Arabic which need complex
context-sensitive rendering, too.

-hpa

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