Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:25:02 +0400 From: "Alexander Churanov" <alexanderchuranov@gmail.com> To: "Tz-Huan Huang" <tzhuan@csie.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, olli@lurza.secnetix.de Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD Message-ID: <3cb459ed0808311325i1c09a85at22faa7c71d83104@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6a7033710808300142o1b253c6cw2e286d42a60e342b@mail.gmail.com> References: <3cb459ed0808250952j572dfc35j2feb852a73de5ace@mail.gmail.com> <200808281718.m7SHISGL067492@lurza.secnetix.de> <3cb459ed0808290636r5eb389c8y6d4aafae1b8001cf@mail.gmail.com> <6a7033710808300142o1b253c6cw2e286d42a60e342b@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/8/30 Tz-Huan Huang <tzhuan@csie.org> > As far as I known Linux's console really support Chinese by change the > display to graphics mode through framebuffer[1]. It should be no video > card compatibility issue if the video card supports VESA well (most cards > support it well I think). How much Chinese glyphs it can render depends on > the coverage of the bitmap fonts, so it should be possible to render all > glyphs if the fonts are available. > > However, I have never used this feature in Linux. All linux systems I > manage > have either X (desktop) or just text-mode console (server) like FreeBSD. > So I don't think this feature is very useful for me. The debian installer > use > this feature to support Chinese and other language interfaces, it might be > useful for a newbie to install an unfamiliar OS. Besides that, there are > less > benefits to support this I think. > > IMHO your schedules looks fine to me. :-) > > Tz-Huan > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer > Thank you. Alexander Churanov
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