Re: UTF-8 on 8.0-CURRENT: Yes We Can!

From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova_at_fbsd.ru>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:26:11 +0400
В вт, 14/07/2009 в 21:47 +0200, Ed Schouten пишет:
> Hello Vladimir,
> 
> * Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova_at_fbsd.ru> wrote:
> > Is it possible to influence mentioned table ? 
> > 
> > In real life I very rare need parts of UTF-8 other then cyrillic, so for
> > me it should be safe to convert cyrillic characters of UTF-8 to
> > appropriate characters in 8-bit symbols (like CP866).
> 
> No. It's currently hardcoded in scterm-teken.c. Alexander Churanov has
> been working on making this dynamic.

Alexander, do you have anything to try ? 

> With my new console driver there's no need to switch tables/fonts. I'm
> currently typing this message using my console driver, which has 1390
> unique glyphs (roughly 45% used by the normal characters, 45% by the
> bold characters and 10% shared between them).

In past graphical console draw text not too quick.
I've tried to live with VESA mode of sc (to match high resolution of
notebook display). But it was really slow.
Probably, your driver will be much faster ?

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova_at_fbsd.ru
Received on Tue Jul 14 2009 - 18:26:41 UTC

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