Egmont Koblinger wrote:
I know that correctly handling all Unicode scripts, including CJK, Hebrew, Arabic, Indic are a much more complicated story and it's way beyond the scope of kernel. I don't even know whether there's any graphical user-space application handling all these issues perfectly. So I really don't want to address them. I'd like only one small modification: the cursor to jump two columns for CJK characters instead of just one. (Either two FFFD's, or rather an FFFD followed by a space printed.) This would allow you to edit English words within a mixed CJK-English text file. As my experiences show, such a minor change in the terminal driver would solve cursor aligning issues in *many* cases. With this change the console would still be very-very far from being perfect, it just would be simply better in practice.
I don't see the point in dealing with one particular corner case, especially a corner case for which font support is inherently impossible.
Are you still definitely against this change? I see no drawbacks this could cause, while it would make the console better in some circumstances. I think this is just a small step towards a better console driver.
It's bloat. -hpa - 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/