On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Damjan wrote: > > > Someone is planning to rewrite the console subsystem for Linux 2.5. > > > That's definitely the time. > > > > Do you have the person's name or email? What is the platform number? Where > > can we jump in? > > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net
I'm wondering how this project will affect several attempts (in the past) to support large character sets (large compared to 256 or 512) in consoles. By this, I meant KON and KON2 for Japanese, HAN, HAN2 and fbcon-hanio (a Korean patch to kernel framebuffer) for Korean and unicon (as included in Turbo Linux) and jfbterm for CJK. In addition, there is zhcon (http://www.sourceforge.net/zhcon, http://zhcon.gnuchina.org) which supports CJK output and input using fb, libggi and VGA. Another interesting piece of information was posted about a year ago to kernel-traffic (?) by an Indian student. Details are at http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20001218_98.html#7 The latter is an attempt to support writing systems in which the mapping between character codepoints and glyphs is not 1 : 1 but n : m. I believe this is relevant to not only various Indic, other South Asian and South East Asian scripts (all derived from Brahmi script) but also to Arabic, Hebrew, Korean Hangul and various Latin/Cyrillic/Greek alphabet-based scripts (when ligature is necessary.) Jungshik Shin -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
