Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support
Alan Cox <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:09:15 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.console,gmane.linux.kernel |
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> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html