From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Mack Stevenson <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:37:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9BE5F3.780B24AE@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F110arjrfh6BYVKBLEB00013ccb@hotmail.com>
Mack Stevenson wrote:
>
> Anyway, I have already pinned down the source file (in 2.2.18) -
> drivers/video/font_sun12x22.c - and would like to try to change this. Yet it
> seems like the kernel boots using the CP437 charmap, so this would need to
> be modified, too - I suppose that the relevant file is
> drivers/char/consolemap.c.
>
> - How can I instruct the kernel to use the ISO-8859-1 character map?
> drivers/char/consolemap.c contains three different translation tables -
> CP437, ISO-8859-1 and VT100 mapped to Unicode -; how can I choose one of
> them?
>
> - Or shouldn't I even bother about this since in the ASCII range CP437 and
> ISO-8859-1 map to the same characters? May I just boot the kernel using an
> unmatched pair of (CP437) charmap and (ISO-8859-1) font, feeling at ease
> because the kernel won't try to print any non-ASCII characters, and only
> later, in userspace, call loadunimap?
>
> Am I understanding this correctly?
>
Not really.
You're much better off designing a larger ISO-8859-1 font and load in in
user space. You can use the 12x22 font in the kernel as a base.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-27 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-27 13:41 ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts? Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-02-27 19:58 ` Guest section DW
2001-02-27 23:16 ` Kurt Garloff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-27 23:34 Andries.Brouwer
2001-02-27 21:45 Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 6:37 Mack Stevenson
2001-02-27 7:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-27 16:26 ` Thorsten Glaser Geuer
2001-02-27 19:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-27 20:05 ` Thorsten Glaser Geuer
2001-02-27 21:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-28 7:29 ` idalton
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