Re: Unicode console patch
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:03:02 -0500 (EST)
Stanislav V. Voronyi writes:
> In message <790f3b$3le$1@palladium.transmeta.com> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>> By author: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
>>> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Stanislav V. Voronyi wrote:
>>>
>>>> one useful feature from my patch - get/set all variables concerning to
>>>> traslations (translate,charset,G0_charset,G1_charset,utf) with help of
>>>> two additional TIOCLINUX ioctls.
>>
>> 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.)
There must be a reasonable way for getty to reset the console to a state
defined by the admin. That includes fonts, translation tables and keymaps.
Secure login is important.
>> I'm working on a completely new console spec that is ISO
>> 2022-compliant (the current console isn't, and cannot be made to be.)
What about scrolling? We have a fairly basic bug that vttest exposes.
IMHO it is more important to make Linux 2.2 vt100 compatible.
(start the latest vttest in 80x25.80 mode and test "screen accordian")
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