On 5/1/07, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:54 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> I strongly suggest that somebody fix the kernel. I'm somewhat unlikely >> to get that done, especially since I don't have a regular PC to test >> the VGA text mode. The annoying limits are 256 max glyphs (512 requires >> giving up the foreground intensity bit, which is not acceptable), 64 kB >> max size, and 32-line max height. > > I'm skeptical that the community will be very eager to lift these limits > for the console, on size alone: before people try this, I'd suggest > checking with the powers that be. You might be right, because people can be irrational about resource usage; the "penny wise and pound foolish" expression probably applies. On the very first Linux box, 64 kB would have been less than 2% of the RAM. It'd be 0.02% on the XO, and 0.006% on any normal machine. Code talks though, and one can always ship with a patch. > I'll also note that there are other solutions to the font encoding > problem, such as what Keith Packard did for Twin. ? >> I also suggest that somebody resubmit the Unicode proposal for >> the 12 precomposed characters needed for Yoruba. It was rejected >> on 1996-Sep-07, over a decade ago. 12 is hardly anything. Without >> these characters, Yoruba might be unworkable on the console. > > It's not clear that console support for Yoruba is very > interesting/useful; having it in terminal emulators seems likely > sufficient for most people. Can we say the same for French, German, and Spanish? People seem to like having non-ASCII filenames and even process names. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
