On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > BTW, the PSF font format documentation seems to suggest that > there is a way to make the kernel handle combining accents: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/font-formats-1.html > Does anybody know if that really works? I could sure use that.
My reading of it suggests you need a precomposed version to which the combining combination can be mapped (the 00c5 for Å in the example). Possibly, the fffe and ffff are used as delimiters for the combination). Maybe, it could be used for yoruba (yeah, I was looking at that an hour before I read your mails) _if_ the font has room to fit in a "private use" character which can hold the precomposed value. For any letter where a precomposed version is in the unicode standards, the only use for combining characters in a console font seems to be as a way of displaying text where somebody has already used them. For latin languages which need additional composed letters, the bigger problem will probably be the input - I've no idea if the console keymap can use combining keys (direct input of the unicode hex is available, of course), and I can't manage to get the direct input of the codes for combining diacriticals to work in combination in my preferred graphical terminal. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
