Re: Re: [Testing] Kernel with unicode tty patch

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Weng Xuetian <[email protected]> wrote:
>  AFAIK this patch is kinds of doing hack on kernel tty code, and I heard
>  there is some issue about font license used with this patch. (Though I
>  thought there is unifont without license issue can be used, since grub2 can
>  display utf8 string)
>

Are you sure there's a "font" been pushed into kernel?

I didn't see anything like .ttf/.ttc/.pcf in the patch itself.


>  So I guess that's also some reason this never gets mainlined.
>
>  And I think further work maybe expected to see on
>  https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon , while fbterm is already a not bad
>  solution (and with im support).

fbterm itself renders font bad, I'll evaluate kmscon soon.
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