Re: vcsa and big endian

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a écrit :
> On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big
> endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little
> endian machines.  Is that expected?

It looks like ggi considers this as normal.  In any case, the vcsa
manual page should probably be made more clear ("but including
attributes" -> "but using unsigned shorts that include attributes" for
instance).

Samuel
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