Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755436Ab0K2Ruy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:54 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:50169 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754847Ab0K2Ruw (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:52 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: microcai@fedoraproject.org Cc: Alexey Gladkov , "Ted Ts'o" , Lisa Milne , "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:06 +0800." <1290996846.877.23.camel@cai.gentoo> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1290941875.13526.15.camel@cai.gentoo> <73BC440E-833E-4E1B-ACCC-5D68BAB89D83@mit.edu> <1290951770.13526.18.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101129020610.7ea7c79e.lisa@ltmnet.com> <1290961207.13526.31.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101128194624.GP2767@thunk.org> <4CF3081B.9090307@gmail.com> <1290996846.877.23.camel@cai.gentoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:37 -0500 Message-ID: <12794.1291053037@localhost> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.14.107 localhost Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=dagger.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020202.4CF3E7ED.024C,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1222 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:06 +0800, Microcai said: > The thing is, you really should agree that, implementing UNICODE font in > kernel isn't a bad idea. Let us know when you have implemented support for bidirectional scripts that require compositing or half-spacing characters. Without blowing out the 8K kernel stack. Doing it *right* is important: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail Two dead, three in jail. All because of broken font support. That's a good reason to not even try unless you can do it *right*. --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFM8+ftcC3lWbTT17ARAlxKAKCTOUIUHdlat0z4yt3eMrwDFXF/LgCg/wFQ hzNT/SfHoi4UBOJHaiDDzgc= =ypM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P-- -- 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/