Re: More simultaneous language support for console besides one?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 13:14:24 EST


> Is there anyway that future linux kernels will display more than one
> foreign font on the console and virtual console at the same
> time? I realize that Xwindows and other such GUI s/w pkgs can display
> them, but I'd like to see the console do it too.

The console supports UTF8 encoding already. However you are limited in
the font size on a text mode console and on a frame buffer it stillmeans
big fonts in kernel ram.

X really is a better way to handle most of this.

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