On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:23 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be > reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of > systems out there?
Yes. I haven't used a system on which it cannot for a number of years. > Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make > any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text > correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 > characters? I've no idea -- I haven't used the VGA text-mode console for years either. I rarely even sit in front of a box on which it even works -- all the workstations I have these days are PowerPC, and use fbdev. > And how about serial terminals? It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it? > Until then I would rather work on code, sorry. And that is not going to > be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really > cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-) You mean the VGA text console 'issue'? I might if I had suitable hardware, or if it was important. But it isn't something that bothers me. -- dwmw2 - 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/
