Subject: Re: New snapshot of raster/Unicode console driver available
To: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/11/2001 10:05:08
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:41:17PM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > Another new snapshot is just released at the same page. Now it can display
> > UTF-8 English/French/German/Japanese(Kana)/Korean mixed text and seems to
> > be quite stable. I have also included compiled kernel (GENERIC +
> > VGA_RASTERCONSOLE and WSDISPLAY_ENCODING_UTF8 options added), wsfontload
> > binary, and wscons.conf for convenience. I would appreciate it if someone
> > would try it and report to me any problem.
>
> Excuse my ignorance please, but is this new wscons code platform
> independent ? or can it be made so ? i.e. does it work on pmax ? (no VGA)
The WSDISPLAY_ENCODING_* stuff certainly is. The only thing that is
VGA-specific is the stuff that makes the VGA work as a framebuffer rathern
than a character cell array.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>