Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checkedin

2002-04-25 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:27:57AM -0400, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: >> Yes. It is up to you to eventually decide whether it is easier to >> keep the extra information together with or separate from the >> character number. I'm just pointing out tha

Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checkedin

2002-04-23 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you want to design a console/terminal emulator in The Right > Way(tm), then you might want to have a look at the linux-utf8 [sic] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lists, That should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]; that is these are two sep

Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checkedin

2002-04-23 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:13:47PM -0400, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: >> Any Unicode character will fit in 21 bits, so you have plenty of >> bits left over for attributes of various sorts. Furthermore, the >> Unicode standard guarantees that this will

Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checkedin

2002-04-22 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:18:33AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> There are probably more points that I forgot now, > > Oh, yeah, the exact data format of the mmap'able area. > > We need to store the character value and the attributes (bold, col