From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262090AbULLPo3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:44:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262089AbULLPo3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:44:29 -0500 Received: from rain.plan9.de ([193.108.181.162]:19107 "EHLO rain.plan9.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262087AbULLPoL (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:44:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:44:06 +0100 From: To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? Message-ID: <20041212154406.GA23451@schmorp.de> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> <20041211173032.GA13208@fargo> <1102803807.3183.59.camel@kl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.6.9 (root@fuji) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:05:49AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Can anyone elaborate on this graphical mouse stuff? What norton does is simply use a few characters that happen to look like a mouse cursor on characters (or norton forces to look, more correctly). You can do that for a single object (like the mouse cursor), and a few more, but of course you can display much less characters that way than with a standard method, as it eats 4 characters/object. -- The choice of a | -----==- _GNU_ | ----==-- _ generation Marc Lehmann +-- ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ pcg@goof.com |e| --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / http://schmorp.de/ --+ -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE | |