linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

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Message-ID: <461BCB1B.9060407@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:36:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Egmont Koblinger <egmont@...linux.hu>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

Alan Cox wrote:
>> What do you exactly mean by this? Doing a binary search in a table of 11
>> intervals to find out whether a character is double-wide? Adding
>> approximately 30 lines of code (including the table and the binary search
>> routine) to the kernel to handle this case? I don't think it's bloat. It's a
> 
> I don't have a problem with it. It is a situation people find themselves
> in and framebuffer consoles can handle CJK although PC text mode ones
> can't do it well. It all comes down to a clean and small implementation.

All the CJK framebuffer consoles that handle CJK I've seen run in 
userspace on top of the kernel framebuffer.  Keeping a CJK font in the 
kernel seems prohibitive regardless of the hardware.

Have you seen anything different?

	-hpa
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