Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754425Ab0KZKK2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:10:28 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:59119 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753839Ab0KZKK0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:10:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:09:15 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: microcai@fedoraproject.org Cc: linux-console@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, brad@neruo.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support Message-ID: <20101126100915.66112ee7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1290765760.6087.3.camel@cai.gentoo> References: <1290765760.6087.3.camel@cai.gentoo> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 18 > I know there are most people speaking only English, and never meet > non-ASCII characters on console. But, hey , what about others ? Like the people who have never met Indic languages or half-space using languages, or Arabic or right to left/left to right mixed or ... > So, here is the solution: Making framebuffer console handle UNICODE font in > kernel. It isn't really a solution - the rendering rules for Unicode are extremely complex, this is why things like Pango exist to do it in user space. Alan -- 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/