> > > > 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
Hi folks. I'm that person that is rewriting the console system. > 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. Seen both. They unfortunely are hacks that break other things. I'm working to find a better solution. > 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.) I seen that patch. It was very nice. Yes I like to see real multilingual support on the console. I haven't got the chance yet to rework it. Especially since it will require alot of work. Anyone want to to a stab at it. There are a few nasty issues to work out tho. . --- |o_o | |:_/ | Give Micro$oft the Bird!!!! // \ \ Use Linux!!!! (| | ) /'_ _/`\ ___)=(___/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
