Arabic and Hebrew on the console
Dmitry Butskoy
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Mon Oct 13 12:30:30 UTC 2008
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
>
Certainly it is non-valid for any GUI. But for console TUI users it is
valid.
Surely it could be fine if I can see both all the glyphs and all the
colors. But because it is impossible, I chose to see colors, rather than
all the glyphs. I need colors every day every hour, and I can ignore
some boxes in some occasional pages I visited by lynx/elinks ...
Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
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