Re: Linux Console in UTF-8 - current state

[Eric Streit <Eric.streit@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le lun 30/09/2002 à 16:41, Thomas Chan a écrit :
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 08:01:43PM -0400, Thomas Chan wrote:
> > > There are a few scripts that are top-to-bottom, with no real and normal
> > > alternative, such as the classical Mongolian script (top-to-bottom,
> > 
> > Mongolian script exists also in horizontal, left to right variant.
> > (it is a quite new invention, yes).
> 
> It is horizontal, top-to-bottom, or horizontal, bottom-to-top?  I've heard
> of horizontal, bottom-to-top for limited embedding in Latin script text.
> 
> Is a it a new invention adopted for independent reasons, or a concession
> to use the script on Latin(script)-based technology?
> 
>  
> > > In the case of CJK and basic display, 18x18 is extravagant--16x16 is
> > > sufficient for daily purposes,
> > 
> > Remember that it will be implemented on framebuffer console, that is,
> > with a much higher resolution than plain old VGA.
> > Maybe it would even be possible to implement use of OpenType fonts.
> 
> Wasn't the concern about the size of a font that would have to be fit
> into the kernel (if that is still an issue)?

thinking more and more about the console, there is something I don'
understand.

How will the console know when it has to write up to down, right to left
.

I can understand with only one langage, so it's possible to choose the
right one, but, imaging a top down writing (Mongolien), how will the os
(linux) write the answers (the prompt, the output of a find research).
And what to do with a text which contains 2 differents langages, like
english and Mongolian . How could any text processing program deal with
such a text. How could it know when to switch between the Two writing
directions, and how ( end of line) etc. And what to do with a really
mixed text ?? 


Eric!
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