Re: Unicode console patch

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
29 Jan 1999 21:00:50 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901292117530.580-100000@qrnik.knm.org.pl>
By author: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 edmund@rano.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> > http://www.rano.demon.co.uk/kernel_patch/003
> >
> > which extends Unicode support to include mouse selection and keyboard
> > mapping, so I'm inviting anyone who is interested in consolemap.c,
> > selection.c or keyboard.c in drivers/char to take a look please and
> > send comments.
>
> Great! Mostly works for me with 2.0.1 and obviously is a good idea, but...
> echo -ne '\33[11m\304'; echo -e '\304\33[10m'
> This gives Ä and a horizontal line (most of the time - once didn't).
> Should be two horizontal line segments. Some of Midnight Commander's
> borders are taken from the user-loaded ACM instead of CP-437; above is
> an extracted simple case which shows the bug.
>

I'm sorry, but what does "user-loaded ACM" mean?

-hpa

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