Re: Unicode console patch

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:37:31 +0100


Hello,

> Please don't extend TIOCLINUX. It was a bad mistake to begin with,
> and furthermore, we're trying to move away from ioctl()s (ioctl()s
> were used because most changes affected *all* consoles. Per-console
> changes should be done with escape codes.)

Are you sure escape codes are the right way to download fonts,
translation tables or keymaps?

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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