Re: More simultaneous language support for console besides one?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 14:14:24 EDT

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    > Is there anyway that future linux kernels will display more than one
    > foreign font on the console and virtual console at the same
    > time? I realize that Xwindows and other such GUI s/w pkgs can display
    > them, but I'd like to see the console do it too.

    The console supports UTF8 encoding already. However you are limited in
    the font size on a text mode console and on a frame buffer it stillmeans
    big fonts in kernel ram.

    X really is a better way to handle most of this.

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