Re: VT console need rewrite

Pavel Machek
2010-12-13T07:15:29Z

Hi!

> > And the code itself, if you'll excuse me, it isn't as beautiful as rest
> > of the kernel.
> > So, it really really need a clean rewrite.I'm ganna take is hard job.
> > And, please tell me if is worth to do so.
>
> To be honest I have doubts its worth it. This was discussed years and
> years ago and the conclusion back then that people who need unicode
> fonts should use them in X or another graphical console environment
> (there are plenty to chose from these days). Has this changed?

Yes. These days kernel sources and kernel messages both contain
non-ASCII characters... as well as many filesystems.
Pavel

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