Unicode-based FreeBSD

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Aug-30 10:39:02 +0200, Marcus von Appen <mva at sysfault.org> wrote:
>I wonder, how backspacing will be implemented for complex scripts such
>as the Indic one or Arabic, where two codepoints will be resolved to one
>logical (and usually visible) character.

IMHO, unless we want to embed the equivalent of pango in the kernel,
the only realistic solution is to count unicode codepoints.

>In my opinion that'd mean either that for codepoints, which are not
>rendered, either the internal unicode set is used (for Arabic this'd be
>form 1) or the user-visible one (form 2). In either of those case the
>backspacing might appear broken to the user.

It would be useful to know how other implementations work because I
can't see how to avoid some degree of broken-ness without a complete
CTF implementation.  If we aim syscons at sysadmins then a degree of
misbehaviour may be acceptable.


>Creating a useful CJK font however will mostly mean to implement around
>at least 1000-2000 characters ;-).

The fonts are available in ports.  I'm not sure if there are existing
bit-mapped fonts but a TTF or similar font can be converted to a
bitmap without major effort.  Antialiasing would help with legibility.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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