linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enlarge the storage of chars in virtual terminal

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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 15:41:20 +0200
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Frank Pan <frankpzh@...il.com>,
	Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@...oo.com.ar>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Jochen Hein <jochen@...hen.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enlarge the storage of chars in virtual terminal

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:11:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:55:04 +0800
> Frank Pan <frankpzh@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings
> > 
> > The motivation is display much more characters on the
> > framebuffer console than 512. If this is done, foreign
> > languages can be easily rendered with currently supported
> > utf-8 encoding.
> 
> This has been suggested a couple of times but unfortunately it's not
> enough to use bigger fonts. Rendering many non western languages is far
> far more complex. In addition the text mode vt driver is limited to 512
> symbols by the hardware.

The Unicode book should be required reading for anyone who starts
talking about displaying utf-8/unicode text.  It's a *very*
interesting book with way more than code charts in it[1].

  OG.
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