On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Medi Montaseri wrote: > I remeber being able to do this on Unix/Linux long time > ago...as far back as 1990s....back then on SCO, AT&T > SVR4 x86 (386 PCs) and then Linux... > > See manpages on > setfont(8) > unicode_start(1) > unicode_stop(1) > loadunimap(8)
Yeah, that's basically it. And my BiCon package already has nice Persian fonts and a keyboard map for Linux console. > And google for "hebrew console"...that community was > on top of this issue and I was using their tools and findings > to solve this problem.... Well, that community uses some of my tools these days :). > my final conclusion was Grahpical Interfaces will win at the > end... Yeah, that was my conclusion too. > And finally Operating Systems are pretty much alike. > If you can do something in Dos, Windows, you can do > it in Linux as well....some would let a userspace app > take over the kernel and do what ever you want (like DOS) and some only > demand that you write a device dirver to take over the kernel... Of course. An small point, DOS doesn't have a kernel really :). It may be called a boot-loader to be precise :D. behdad > Cheers > Medi _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list PersianComputing@lists.sharif.edu http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
