Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754516Ab0LOOpO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:45:14 -0500 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:57317 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752158Ab0LOOpM (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:45:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:45:02 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Samuel Thibault , Microcai , "Ted Ts'o" , Lisa Milne , "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite Message-ID: <20101215144501.GB10467@ucw.cz> References: <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> <1290993244.877.3.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101129085829.GM5142@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> <1291023157.9785.2.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101129095823.GQ5142@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101129095823.GQ5142@const.bordeaux.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1288 Lines: 30 Hi! > > I have many different kinds of patchs that did it in different ways. > > > > What realy matters is that, do we agree that add unicode font support is > > acceptable ? > > Simple unicode font (i.e. just go beyond the arbitrary historical-vga > 512 glyphs limit for fbcon) might go in. Double-width is questionable, That would be very nice, yes. > But complete unicode support (with arabic ligatures, tibetan > combinations, etc.) won't ever be accepted in the kernel as that's far > too involved in terms of font rendering. So the userland way needs to > be fixed for these anyway, and then things like chinese will go along... Well... english has ligatures, too (fi); console does not support them nicely and we still use it. Support for eastern european characters by default would be very very nice... and yes, that's just breaking the 256 char limit, nothing more complex. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/