Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 20:02:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Another problem with I18N support in sysinstall. Message-ID: <199505041802.UAA24093@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1063.799590239@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 4, 95 05:23:59 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > If you go with the default font, you get nice looking dialogs and > lousy looking umlauts, accents and such. If you go with an ISO8859-1 > font, you get nice umlauts and accents but the line drawing characters > have gone to hell and the dialogs look terrible. I think it's an inherent problem in syscons. There are only 256 font slots (pcvt uses 512, and remaps everything so most ISO-8859-1 chars can be displayed without a loaded font), and it's a decision question if you want to have the all-singing-all-dancing IBM437 box character crud (instead of single-line box characters as used in VT102), or the i18n features of ISO-8859-1. (Do understand me right: i'm not voting for pcvt as the default driver.) Perhaps the slot range 0x80 - 0x9f (ISO additional control characters) can be used for simple box characters. > P.S. I suddently occurs to me that I've been calling Andrey "Andrew" > for about 2 years now! He used to call himself this way for about 2 years. :) (So it can't be too hard. Maybe i should get a KOI-8 font and use it for every mail to one of our russian friends. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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