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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