Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:44:13 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mouse chars default (was Re: syscons becomes worse somwhere in v1.252-1.255) Message-ID: <371.887391853@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:41:10 %2B0300." <19980213204110.51597@nagual.pp.ru>
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In message <19980213204110.51597@nagual.pp.ru>, =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w== ?= writes: >On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:11:10PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> In reply to [______ ______] who wrote: >> [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >> > >> > For 2) - I think we need to make 0x03 ad _default_ mouse character code >> > instead of 0xd0 as was before. 0xd0 very depends on code table used and >> > points to valid used character in many tables while 0x03 don't confuse >> > anybody since lower controls not used in termcap entries and for national >> > character too. Any objections? >> >> YES! it makes the mouse cursor look really bad if the chars is not in >> the interval 0xc0-0xdf. In that interval you can pick and chose... > >You mean thin vertical black lines in mouse cursor? I even didn't notice >them until you point on it, so "really bad" is too strong phrase :-) >Well, I agree. The question remains what is worse for _default_: national >characters overlap (i.e. Russian termcap entry already is in conflict with >0xd0 and with any 0xc0-0xdf characters) or thin vertical lines in mouse >cursor... But the russian font doesn't need that special double-pixel, right ? so just remap the russian chars to another range when displaying... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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