From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1C93Qr-0001il-4v for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:16:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C93Qp-0001ie-1c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:16:51 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C93Qn-0001iJ-I6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:16:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C93Qn-0001i9-GL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:16:49 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C93Ki-0000ds-MN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:10:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B760A8E9 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:51:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13718-09 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:51:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A34A45C for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:51:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32244C047 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:51:41 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200409181632.21893.okuji@enbug.org> <87brg2ms9q.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <200409191635.19746.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:51:45 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200409191635.19746.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:35:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87r7oyl3b2.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: terminal enhancement X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:16:51 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" 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