You, G. Adam Stanislav, were spotted writing this on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:59:55PM
-0500:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:08:56PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >Of course, it still remains to be seen if having Unicode support on the
> >console is a Good Thing(TM).
>
> I don't see how it would be even possible, due to hardware limitations.
> The console can only support an 8-bit font (I mean 8-bit encoding). If
> you change it for one character, you change it for everything on the
> console. And this was designed by *International* Business Machines! :)
a) VGA actually supports 512-characters fonts; this is not currently
supported by FreeBSD, but can be.
b) FreeBSD supports "raster modes", which are graphics VGA modes
used as if they were text modes -- the characters gets drawn very
quickly by the VGA renderer code using their representation in
the font file (it is my understanding, though I might be wrong,
that Linux doesn't support these). In these modes, you could draw
arbitrarily many different glyphs at the same time, once Unicode support
is added.
--
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