Linux Unicode user-space console driver

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have one of these?

The closest I've found is jfbterm, based on a program called KON,
which uses PCF fixed fonts and understands various Asian encodings,
and bogl, which reads BDF proportional fonts and is part of a mini
window system rather than a console. Both use the Linux framebuffer
device, and neither works with UCS.

I thought I might be able to adapt jfbterm to work with Unicode, but
the documentation is in Japanese, and it appears to convert fonts via
some Asian-specific terminal font structure, so I got bogged down in
details which are of no interest to me.

If nothing better is available and I continue to find jfbterm
inscrutible, I might try to write something from scratch, in which
case I would be grateful if anyone could point me at documentation or
examples of how to read PCF fonts. Documentation or examples of how to
address the framebuffer in a portable fashion would be useful, too,
but I think I know of better places to ask about that ...

Edmund
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