Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2002-09-11 02:46 UTC:
>  - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for
>    worldwide usage.

The IBM PC text video modes are an utterly obsolete anachronism of the
days of 4 MHz CPUs and 4 kB video graphic cards. It would do far more
good than harm if Linux removed support for the graphic cards text modes
entirely, thereby eliminating the major reason for any 256/512 character
limit. Linux doesn't run any more on machines, where the text video
modes provide any noticeable performance benefit.

Markus

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