From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:36:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461BCB1B.9060407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070410183659.7341eeec@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> What do you exactly mean by this? Doing a binary search in a table of 11
>> intervals to find out whether a character is double-wide? Adding
>> approximately 30 lines of code (including the table and the binary search
>> routine) to the kernel to handle this case? I don't think it's bloat. It's a
>
> I don't have a problem with it. It is a situation people find themselves
> in and framebuffer consoles can handle CJK although PC text mode ones
> can't do it well. It all comes down to a clean and small implementation.
All the CJK framebuffer consoles that handle CJK I've seen run in
userspace on top of the kernel framebuffer. Keeping a CJK font in the
kernel seems prohibitive regardless of the hardware.
Have you seen anything different?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-10 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 19:12 [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-06 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-07 9:24 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-07 11:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-07 17:26 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-07 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 9:43 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-10 15:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 17:19 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-10 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-10 18:51 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 12:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-10 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-10 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-11 18:28 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 9:11 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 16:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 16:55 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 17:16 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 17:44 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 17:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-12 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 12:54 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-12 14:06 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 14:38 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-12 14:58 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 15:52 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-12 16:36 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-12 18:09 ` Roman Zippel
2007-04-11 19:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-12 9:22 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-04-11 19:36 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-12 8:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-17 10:22 Egmont Koblinger
2007-06-19 12:13 ` Egmont Koblinger
[not found] <8aT6Q-3iM-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8xLa7-25v-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-06-19 13:54 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-06-19 14:42 ` Egmont Koblinger
2007-06-19 17:10 ` Bodo Eggert
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