Hello Alexander, * Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 1) Is unicode support in character-mode (I mean plain tty, not Xorg) FreeBSD > human interface alreay implemented? Yes and no. Right now, you can just use UTF-8 inside ncurses and there is nothing that actually stops you from writing pieces of console software that supports UTF-8. But there is one problem with TTY's: when you switch your terminal to canonical mode (where it processes entire lines of text at a time), it cannot properly perform backspace on exotic characters, because the characters are both variadic in bytes and columns. Linux has this IUTF8 flag for termios, which we don't support (yet). I am not sure how profitable it is to implement this. It makes the TTY code a lot more complex than it is right now. I think 90% of the time, the TTY is configured to run in non-canonical mode anyway. I think we should let this wait until we have an UTF-8 capable syscons. -- Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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