From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: microcai@fedoraproject.org
Cc: linux-console@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
brad@neruo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:09:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101126100915.66112ee7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290765760.6087.3.camel@cai.gentoo>
> I know there are most people speaking only English, and never meet
> non-ASCII characters on console. But, hey , what about others ?
Like the people who have never met Indic languages or half-space using
languages, or Arabic or right to left/left to right mixed or ...
> So, here is the solution: Making framebuffer console handle UNICODE font in
> kernel.
It isn't really a solution - the rendering rules for Unicode are extremely
complex, this is why things like Pango exist to do it in user space.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-26 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 10:02 Microcai
2010-11-26 10:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-11-26 10:19 ` microcai
2010-11-26 10:41 ` Alan Cox
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