On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:27:18AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Radovan> CJK and similar require much different characters fonts then VGA > Radovan> hardware is capable of displaying in text mode - so they neither > Radovan> can be supported, unicode or not. > > Does framebuffer solve this?
AFAIK, no. Linux kernel cannot work with multibyte fonts. Patches are floating around, but mostly they concentrate on adding national CJK encodings (yuck - yet another incompatible console) Although this would not be that difficult to fix in kernel, you need console-tools support as well, and since a new better, shiny linux console driver is being developped (linuxconsole.sourceforge.net), it would be probably wiser to concentrate on that (but, god knows when that gets into kernel...) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
