On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:00:48PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hi,
> Please, no dot, and no inverse color. > Imagine someone had the following bitmap for <unknown glyph/illegal sequence>: No dot, I'm already convinced. To clarify the inverse thingy: This is what the current kernel does: 1) tries to display the desired symbol 2) if it fails, tries to display U+FFFD (which usually looks similar to an inverted question mark) 3) if this fails again then displays a normal '?' (or a different symbol due to a bug discussed below) Here's my proposal. This only alters the 3rd step, not the first two: 1) tries to display the desired symbol 2) if it fails, tries to display U+FFFD, still with _normal_ attributes 3) if this fails then display an ascii '?' with inverted attributes So you won't get "double" inversion. If you do have U+FFFD in your font then this will introduce no chance. If you don't have U+FFFD, you'll see inverse question marks instead of normal ones. > I blame your latin2 unicode map. (See above about 'Û'.) There's nothing wrong with my latin2 unicode map, and I've located and changed the part _in the kernel_ that displays a false glyph using the algorithm I've outlined. It just uses "the glyph at that code position within the glyph table" as a fallback, which might be okay in 8-bit mode (and I haven't modified the behavior in that case), but I got rid of this behavior in UTF-8 mode since it's definitely a fault in the world of Unicode. > It should perhaps display a regular 'u' if it cannot display 'û', I rather think it should display U+FFFD but YMMV. > but definitely not 'ü' (which is not called a double accent, btw). This is not the character I've been talking about, I actually _did_ talk about u with double acute accent (ű - you might not have seen this character so far, AFAIK it's only used in Hungarian, no other languages). But we agree that the kernel definitely shouldn't display a character with a different accent on it. This is one of the bugs my patch addresses. bye, Egmont - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/