Hello all, I may have mentioned this to some people some time ago, but I thought it would be nice to start a thread about this here on -hackers:
A couple of weeks ago I started working on a library (libteken) that
implements a subset of features (escape sequences) of xterm, our trusty
X11 terminal application. I've done most hacking/testing in userspace,
but this week I experimented with removing the terminal emulation from
syscons and replaced it by the library. The result:
- We can finally SSH to other operating systems, network switches, etc.
without messing up our terminals. Almost any operating system out
there has termcap entries for `xterm', which means stuff should Just
Work (tm).
- My library only accepts one character set of input: UTF-8. Right now
it just directly forwards the character codes to Syscons, hoping
Syscons has a character map that is capable of displaying them (which
doesn't work).
There are still many small issues I have to fix in the terminal
emulation library, but also in the Syscons <-> libteken code. I won't
commit it on short notice, obviously. If people want to test it, the
code is in the MPSAFE TTY branch in Perforce. Diffs are available at:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ed/mpsafetty/
My question is if there are people out there who could help me
implementing UTF-8 font rendering. I wouldn't have a clue where to
start (yet).
Yours,
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Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
WWW: http://80386.nl/
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