On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:23 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be
> reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of
> systems out there?
Yes. I haven't used a system on which it cannot for a number of years.
> Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make
> any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text
> correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512
> characters?
I've no idea -- I haven't used the VGA text-mode console for years
either. I rarely even sit in front of a box on which it even works --
all the workstations I have these days are PowerPC, and use fbdev.
> And how about serial terminals?
It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?
> Until then I would rather work on code, sorry. And that is not going to
> be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really
> cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-)
You mean the VGA text console 'issue'? I might if I had suitable
hardware, or if it was important. But it isn't something that bothers
me.
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dwmw2
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