Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: rotation. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 09 Jan 2003 23:03:08 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 19:59, James Simmons wrote: > > > So, we also support fbcon for not left to righ locales ? > > This looks like a high-level thing to me. > > Ideally something like ansi escape sequences to switch between > > left-to-right, right-to-left, and up-to-down advancing of > > the cursor. Then the same multilingual apps will work with > > fbdev, xterm, and other terminals and emulators that > > implement those operations. > > Yeap. Such things are supported on the console level. ISO6429 support.
Note btw that the support ends rather abruptly on the console input side. There is no support for 3 or 4 byte utf8 input sequences and the delete key code in the kernel has no understanding of or support for UTF8 deletion behaviour
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