On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 10:31:45AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > After a thought, it doesn't make any sense to somehow exclude a handful of > non-ASCII symbols when the whole rest of Unicode is hard-coded in the > kernel. Thus, let's make them all work the same. > > I guess it'd be best to change kernel code to use proper character > identification functions (iswfoo()) like GUI terminals do; that's certainly > impossible before stretch though.
Actually, the kernel should be changed to allow /dev/vcsa to be mmap()able. This way, consolation would be able to read the characters on screen directly and all of this could be done in user-space. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
