Hi folks! I'd like to announce that the work on UTF8-compatible syscons is going on. Current Status: I've finished with UTF-8 decoding in syscons. This includes kernel-mode decoder, user-mode unit-tests for it, patch for syscons output processor to transcode UTF-8 to 8-bit encoding depending on global mode flag using specified transcoding map, and user-mode integration test application that produces UTF8-encoded characters from various unicode regions on its standard output stream. What needs to be done: * encoder to convert user input to UTF-8 * IOCTLs for setting UTF-8 mode on and off (currently hardcoded un syscons initialization routine) * IOCTLs for updating UTF-8-to-8-bit transcoding map (map is also hardcoded in init routine) * patch vidcontrol for utilizing IOCTLs mentioned earlier * examing impact of switching to UTF-8 on the system, utilities, ports, etc. For the purpose of updates like that I would like to have something like a page on FreeBSD wiki. I would place status information, documentation and current patches there. In my opinion it's better than having it placed on 3rd party website. Is it possible? Alexander ChuranovReceived on Tue Nov 11 2008 - 13:29:37 UTC
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