At 26 Jul 04 11:35:32 GMT, Recai Oktas wrote: > * Petter Reinholdtsen [2004-07-26 12:49:04+0200] > > [Recai Oktas] > > > IMO, the current situation is not wrong, due to its cyrillic > > > spefisic content it is something that should be maintained > > > seperately. > > > > I don't understand this argument. With the same argument, we should > > have console-latin1, console-ascii, console-big5, and so on and so > > forth. > > The situation is not that bad. There are mainly three types of consoles > wrt the console handling. console-tools for "Latin", console-cyrillic > for "Cyrillic" and the missing one console-jfb for languages with more > than 512 glyphes. I think this is a reasonable categorization for > the things I describe below. > > > And this do not make sense. The difference is only in the > > content of some data files, and how these are applied to the linux > > console. > > The difference mainly comes from the fact that each of the console > handling packages mentioned above needs special treatment and we should > leave this task to the most eligible developer, that is, the one who use > that type of console in his/her real life. By this argument, I must say > that the console-jfb should be maintained by a Japanese developer > (Kenshi?). That way, such console problems could be quickly spotted > and fixed. I think this fact also ensures the modularization when we > consider it in d-i.
I may misunderstand your opinion, but jfbterm is completely different with console-data and console-cyrillic. - jfbterm is just terminal application as same as bterm. It uses framebuffer and is independent of console-*. Because this is application, - normal-user can't launch up X Window System from here. - it can't provide as console by init script. - console-tools and console-cyrillic can change console characters directly. But we, CJK people and people using other multiple byte characters can't do such a thing without special patch to Linux kernel. There was one patch 'unicon' (by Japanese commercial distributor TurboLinux), but this was huge, CJK specific, and finally looks unmaintained and removed. Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
