Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > I've been working on this for a bit. The approach I took was > to 1) kick syscons out, 2) write a VGA driver that works in > graphics mode, 3) create a terminal driver that uses UNICODE > internally (that is, it uses UTF-32) and that can support > different terminal emulations, 4) start a VT100/VT102 terminal > emulation driver. AFAIK this is what Linux did and I think it's the Right Way To Do It (based on seeing it work). Massaging UTF-8 into 8-bit text mode in console could be nice but is of very limited usefulness today.
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