2008/8/30 Tz-Huan Huang <tzhuan_at_csie.org> > 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_framebuffer > Thank you. Alexander ChuranovReceived on Sun Aug 31 2008 - 18:25:04 UTC
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