From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: VT console need rewrite Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:50:37 -0500 Message-ID: <12794.1291053037@localhost> References: <1290941875.13526.15.camel@cai.gentoo> <73BC440E-833E-4E1B-ACCC-5D68BAB89D83@mit.edu> <1290951770.13526.18.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101129020610.7ea7c79e.lisa@ltmnet.com> <1290961207.13526.31.camel@cai.gentoo> <20101128194624.GP2767@thunk.org> <4CF3081B.9090307@gmail.com> <1290996846.877.23.camel@cai.gentoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:14:06 +0800." <1290996846.877.23.camel@cai.gentoo> Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: microcai@fedoraproject.org Cc: Alexey Gladkov , Ted Ts'o , Lisa Milne , "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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*. --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFM8+ftcC3lWbTT17ARAlxKAKCTOUIUHdlat0z4yt3eMrwDFXF/LgCg/wFQ hzNT/SfHoi4UBOJHaiDDzgc= =ypM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1291053037_5346P--