Hi, From: Innocenti Maresin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux console internationalization Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:22:27 +0400
> Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > > Interesting, but any plan to support more than 512 characters? > > Not within VGA text modes. > 2^9 is a hardware restriction based on text framebuffer's data semantic. I see. It is since MS/PC-DOS version 6.x (so-called "DOS/V") that IBM-compatible PC began to be able to display Japanese characters on text screen. (Before then Japanese local PC was used which has hardware Japanese support.) I imagine the MS/PC-DOS used VGA graphic mode. (I heard that "V" in the name "DOS/V" came from "VGA".) > And I think that 9x16 (this is the largest glyph size usable in VGA text) > is apparently much less than is needed to read Japan glyphs without risk of eyes. > Even for 12-year-old Japanese person ;-) Right. On tty, Japanese character are displayed using two columns. For example, when ASCII characters are 8x16, Japanese characters are 16x16. > So, VGA text seems not to be an acceptable solution for East Asia. Right. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
