> Just check the console on any random selection of non-us or uk systems > and you'll see the current garbage is the console output. Sure it is > not a blocker because all the different encodings agree on the ASCII > part, but anything outside the 127 first codepoints has a high > probability of being mis-rendered.
You mean you don't know how to work the console or put it in unicode mode. Diddums. There are things you can't do in character console mode - arabic is quite tricky, most indian languages are a no-go, but the console isn't designed for that so we don't care. > The problem is not rendering the font data, it's to get the right font > data in the first place. You have not-so-trivial problems like the The font data is out there already thank you. As you keep conveniently forgetting X can already render those fonts to bitmaps suitable for such a screen so the problem doesn't exist except in your mind. > limited number of glyphs allowed in console fonts, the fact 4:3 15" > VGA screens are not manufactured anymore, etc Untrue but rather irrelevant really. The font size in VGA consoles is defined by the hardware on the video card. Alan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg