Re: Linux login security approaches

kudielka@crl.go.jp
Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:18:43 +0900


Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be) wrote:
> Yes, just write your own fbcon-* routines that can handle 16-bit fonts, and
> adapt the generic console layer for 16-bit fonts and left-to-right and
> bottom-to-top display output.

Expanding to 16-bit fonts should be straightforward, but I see another
problem: We need single- and double-width characters. Things like

width *= fontwidth(p);

won't be that easy anymore.

Anyway, is there anybody out there working on such a thing?

-Klaus

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