Syscons with xterm emulation: one step closer to UTF-8 support?

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Sun Dec 7 13:16:04 PST 2008


* Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> VT100 emulation in syscons is a great idea.
>
> The first time ;-) I implemented VT100 emulation I didn't
> know about all of the VT100 and VT220 torture tests
> floating around.  If you haven't already, I strongly
> suggest you track down some of them.  The various
> VT100 "movies" are useful tests and kind of fun to watch.

Yes. That's a very good idea. So far I've mainly done testing with
vttest, maintained by Thomas Dickey:

	http://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html

But I'll see if I can find others. They are very good to monitor
regressions.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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