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

From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:04:18 +0100
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 22:10 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current_at_mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > Is this an acronym or are we getting Dutchionalized kernel options? :)
> 
> The latter. `Tekenen' is the Dutch verb for drawing. libteken is a
> library I wrote last year to emulate an xterm-like terminal with UTF-8.
> I modified it, so it can be used with cons25 and 8-bit character sets.
> Even though the name suggests it draws stuff, it doesn't. It only turns
> a stream of bytes into character placement calls.
> 
> My new console driver also uses libteken to perform the terminal
> emulation.
> 

Oh. I thought it strange to name a UTF-8 console driver after a blood
sucking parasite ;)

Cheers

Tom
Received on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 07:04:22 UTC

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