Re: Unicode support on VGA console.

Klaus Kudielka (klaus.kudielka@ieee.org)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:01:53 +0900

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> User space or kernel space, wherever it is, it would be good to
> support large character sets (whatever the code is, Unicode would be
> OK) in console.

Has anybody been working on wide-character support for framebuffers?
Something like a userspace-daemon loading "font pages" into kernel memory
on demand? Any better ideas?

Or do we have to stick with something like "kon" for the rest of our lives?

-Klaus

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