Subject: Re: New snapshot of raster/Unicode console driver available
To: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
From: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/13/2001 14:07:07
Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Bang" == Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org> writes:
> 
>   Bang> For now you can't. Instead, how about using UTF-8 encoded Latin font
>   Bang> currently supported?
> 
> The _font_ can hardly be UTF-8 encoded, as UTF-8 is a variable length
> multibyte encoding, and fonts need to be indexed with an N-dimensional
> (typically N=1 or N=2) index code.  Don't you mean UCS (Unicode
> Character Set) encoded?

Oh, maybe I was so tired when I was writing it. :) There's no font like
UTF-8 encoded one.

> 
>   Bang> Could you tell me where I can get information on ISO-8859?
> 
> See <URL:http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/> and RFC1345.

Another good information. Thanks.

Jun-Young

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