Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support
Alan Cox <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:53:30 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.console |
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| Message-ID | <20101127135330.5e32a45a@pyx> |
> Think about w3m, It must run on framebuffer to display pictures. > But, I must run on fbterm to display CJK characters ..... So you want a windowing layer - thats a user space problem. You need that anyway to keep the pictures and the text in the right places relative to one another and to handle events. > Well, if you have that time, please find out those softwares that need > to rewrite, and, send patches to them. I'm sure they will just reply : > why not handle UNICODE in kernel ?! Which has been answered, if you want to run multiple graphical apps on a framebuffer use a windowing system like everyone else does, and I would imagine "use X" is what most of the software people would tell you. -- 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