Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754871AbXEARG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 13:06:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754872AbXEARG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 13:06:29 -0400 Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:6935 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754870AbXEARG1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 13:06:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 18:06:20 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel , aeb@cwi.nl, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: console font limits Message-ID: <20070501170620.GA12118@deepthought> References: <787b0d920704302109r352e6653wc71a0638cbfbdcce@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <787b0d920704302109r352e6653wc71a0638cbfbdcce@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1609 Lines: 35 On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > BTW, the PSF font format documentation seems to suggest that > there is a way to make the kernel handle combining accents: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html > Does anybody know if that really works? I could sure use that. My reading of it suggests you need a precomposed version to which the combining combination can be mapped (the 00c5 for ? in the example). Possibly, the fffe and ffff are used as delimiters for the combination). Maybe, it could be used for yoruba (yeah, I was looking at that an hour before I read your mails) _if_ the font has room to fit in a "private use" character which can hold the precomposed value. For any letter where a precomposed version is in the unicode standards, the only use for combining characters in a console font seems to be as a way of displaying text where somebody has already used them. For latin languages which need additional composed letters, the bigger problem will probably be the input - I've no idea if the console keymap can use combining keys (direct input of the unicode hex is available, of course), and I can't manage to get the direct input of the codes for combining diacriticals to work in combination in my preferred graphical terminal. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/