Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] The future of framebuffer

[Nick K. <nic...@ma...>]

Hello, GOTO!
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:40:08 +0900, you wrote:

> At Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:40:47 +0400,
> Nick Kurshev <nic...@ma...> wrote:
> > 2. What about NLS support?
> > Since I have localized linux distribution - I can not read
> > any messages which is written not in English.
> 
> Is this console program or kernel issue?
> fbcon is ready for single byte characters, and
> jfbterm is ready for more complex language like UTF, EUC, ISO-2022.
> Also console-tools is becoming ready for single byte characters and
> UTF-8. But I've never seen multibyte characters with default
> terminal (with console-tools).
> 
> -- gotom
> 
As I see NLS depends on drivers/video/font_8x??.c which were generated by cpi2font.
Curently Linux has only english version of these files.

Best regards! Nick