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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: terminal enhancement
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:51:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7oyl3b2.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409191635.19746.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:35:19 +0200")

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:

>> What I mean is that the character 
>> 'a' always has the same size, unless you are using some ttf-fonts. 
>> Do you have bigger characters in mind?
>
> Surely. For example, look at this one:
>
> http://yudit.org/images/yudit-2.4.8.gif

[...]

> When implementing a terminal, never assume (the number of bytes) == (the 
> number of columns) or (the number of characters) < (the number of 
> columns). A given character can be one-column or two-column in the 
> current implementation of GRUB. If we want to support Hindi, things 
> will be more complicated.

I understand.

Thanks,
Marco




      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-18 14:32 terminal enhancement Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-19 11:07 ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-19 14:35   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-19 14:51     ` Marco Gerards [this message]

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