Arabic and Hebrew on the console

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Since RedHat Linux 8, "latarcyrherb-sun16"  is the default console 
>> font. It seems that it was chosen in assumption that 
>> ascii+latin+cyrillic+hebrew+arabic in one a font should satisfy all 
>> the needs of console users.
>>
>> But "latarcyrheb-sun16" is so-called 512-glyphs font. Unfortunately, 
>> there is a restriction in hardware, which decreases the amount of 
>> available console colors if console font has more than 256 glyphs.
>
> Isn't Kernel Mode Setting supposed to fix this?

Perhaps yes. But it is still in progress, hence it could be done 
completely somewhere in the future, not for now.

Besides that, people can use some hardware which do not support KMS 
(either too old, or too specific); people can use too old systems, etc. 
Hence it is better to resolve this issue despite of the KMS feature.


Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy