[PATCH 0/5] have the vt console preserve unicode characters

2018-06-10 Thread Nicolas Pitre
The vt code translates UTF-8 strings into glyph index values and stores those glyph values directly in the screen buffer. Because there can only be at most 512 glyphs, it is impossible to represent most unicode characters, in which case a default glyph (often '?') is displayed instead. The original

[PATCH 0/5] have the vt console preserve unicode characters

2018-05-30 Thread Nicolas Pitre
The vt code translates UTF-8 strings into glyph index values and stores those glyph values directly in the screen buffer. Because there can only be at most 512 glyphs, it is impossible to represent most unicode characters, in which case a default glyph (often '?') is displayed instead. The original