Am Sonntag, 1. Dezember 2019, 18:10:35 CET schrieb Ethan Gardener: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Bernd Paysan wrote: > > Gforth gl-terminal is for ASCII and a few special characters only. That's > > intentional, it should be simple. > > I agree. I looked into how Plan 9 does unicode because it seems very > simple, but it's not so simple under the surface: The display driver has to > cache images representing ranges of characters. To quote someone who > worked on Plan 9, "There's no such thing as a simple cache bug." ;) And it > has bug of omission: it has no support for combining characters.
Minos2 has something similar, and I even plan to add support for combining characters (via harfbuzz), but that's not the right thing for the very simple terminal. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" net2o id: kQusJzA;7*?t=uy@X}1GWr!+0qqp_Cn176t4(dQ* https://net2o.de/
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