On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Alexander Churanov <alexanderchuranov_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/8/28 Oliver Fromme <olli_at_lurza.secnetix.de> >> >> Right now, a Chinese sysadmin cannot simply go to a FreeBSD >> console, run mutt and read mails from his co-workers that >> contain Chinese characters. This *does* work fine with >> Linux. This is clearly an area where FreeBSD is lacking. > > Tz-Huan, > Could you comment on this? Does Linux really display and render all Chinese > glyphs corectly? Do they have video card compatibility issues? How about > top-to-bottom rendering? Is it actually used or useful in China and Taiwan? Hi, 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_framebufferReceived on Sat Aug 30 2008 - 06:42:38 UTC
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