Arabic and Hebrew on the console
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Oct 10 18:45:42 UTC 2008
Dmitry Butskoy (buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru) said:
> The solution looks simple -- just change the default "latarcyrheb-sun16"
> to some old good 256-gliph font. It is an obvious thing, especially in
> fact that actually the "latin+cyrillic+hebrew+arabic" combination seems
> never used in a real life of console. What seems to be used is just
> "ascii + local native language" (ie. ascii+latin1, ascii+cyrillic etc.),
> and such combinations do not exceed 256-glyph limit.
This implies you'll never want to/need to see characters outside of
your local language. I'm not sure that's a valid assumption.
Bill
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