Subject: Re: New options to wsconscfg(8) and wsfontload(8) for uwscons
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/12/2003 00:57:26
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:27:38AM +0900, Noriyuki Soda wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:17:05 +0900,
> 	Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org> said:
> 
> > #	name	width	height	fstchar	enc		file
> > font 	latin1	8	16	-	ISO-8859-1	/usr/share/wscons/fonts/iso.816
> 
> Mm, "ISO-8859-1"?
> I think it should be "ISO8859-1", because "ISO8859-1" is the value
> that our nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns.

It was a typo. :)

> 
> > After this change, encodings `iso' and `iso7' will be no longer
> > valid. Is it okay? (Of course, I won't bring it into -current until
> > I have committed the kernel part of uwscons first.)
> 
> I'm not sure.
> If compatibility is needed, we can hardcode compat stuff in wsconscfg.c.

With addition of `fstchar' field in the font line, the old wsconscfg(8)
will no longer accept the new syntax. So compatibility must be sacrified. 

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>