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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: microcai@fedoraproject.org
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>,
	Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Lisa Milne <lisa@ltmnet.com>,
	"jonsmirl@gmail.com" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12794.1291053037@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:06 +0800." <1290996846.877.23.camel@cai.gentoo>

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:06 +0800, Microcai said:

> The thing is, you really should agree that, implementing UNICODE font in
> kernel isn't a bad idea.

Let us know when you have implemented support for bidirectional
scripts that require compositing or half-spacing characters.  Without
blowing out the 8K kernel stack.

Doing it *right* is important:

http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail

Two dead, three in jail.  All because of broken font support.  That's a good
reason to not even try unless you can do it *right*.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-28 10:57 VT console need rewrite Microcai
2010-11-28 13:24 ` Theodore Tso
2010-11-28 13:42   ` Microcai
2010-11-28 14:05     ` jonsmirl
2010-11-28 14:29       ` Microcai
2010-11-28 14:49         ` jonsmirl
2010-11-28 19:11         ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29  1:10           ` Microcai
2010-11-29  2:49             ` Américo Wang
2010-11-29  2:48               ` Microcai
2010-11-29  8:16             ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29  8:20               ` microcai
2010-11-29  8:27                 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29  8:53                   ` Microcai
2010-11-29  8:59                     ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-28 16:06       ` Lisa Milne
2010-11-28 16:20         ` Microcai
2010-11-28 19:46           ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-29  1:14             ` Microcai
2010-11-29  8:58               ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29  9:32                 ` Microcai
2010-11-29  9:58                   ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29 10:11                     ` Microcai
2010-11-29 10:17                       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29 10:40                         ` Microcai
2010-11-29 10:39                           ` Samuel Thibault
2010-12-15 14:45                     ` Pavel Machek
2010-12-15 15:04                       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-29  1:55             ` Alexey Gladkov
2010-11-29  2:14               ` Microcai
2010-11-29 14:02                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-29 17:50                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2010-11-29 21:23                   ` Jerome Glisse
2010-11-28 23:46           ` Alan Cox
2010-11-29  1:28             ` Microcai
2010-11-29 14:07               ` Alan Cox
2010-11-30  5:05                 ` microcai
2010-12-20  6:35                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 10:01 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-29 10:12   ` Microcai
2010-12-07 20:37     ` Jesse Barnes
2010-12-13  7:13   ` Pavel Machek
2010-12-13 10:18     ` Alan Cox
2010-12-15 14:40       ` Pavel Machek

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