Hi,
Le dim 29/09/2002 � 10:55, Glenn Maynard a �crit : > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:26:18PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > For example, 18x18ja.bdf in XFree86's CVS today is just about 4MB and > > about 600kB when compressed. When we know that this font (or similar > > one, which will be in similar size) is mandatory for CJK people, I > > imagine nobody would think this size is too large to be included in > > Linux source code. > > I would; it's something that should be readily available, but not part > of the main source tree. > > However, the kernel people have never paid much heed to proper > modularization and don't seem to care much if the kernel source bloats > to ridiculous sizes ... > and what about a default font and dynamiquely loaeded parts of a big unifont font. We could split the big unifont in small parts which could be loaded part by part. The console could have a bottom line like a setup line and with some kinds of menus to choose the keyborad mapping, the part of the font , the direction of writing (like it was in the old times with the serial terminals) but we need some "basic" console at boot time . Maybe, a console on different ttys : standart console on tty1 and 2 and unicode console on tty3 and 4. this technique will keep the source small. We only have to add the setup bottom line, and the part of dynaniquely loaded fonts. Eric! ----- *********[EMAIL PROTECTED]********* -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
