At 12:49 PM +0200 4/18/01, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>James Kass wrote:
>> > >..., the old 386's
>> > >... may not be able
>> > >to support an OS capable of using new rendering technology.
> > >
>BTW, I don't know in detail the current status of Unicode support on Linux,
>but I know that projects are ongoing.
>
>Couldn't that light but powerful OS be a possible key for bringing Unicode
>(and other features) in smaller markets?
Certainly. I am told that Linux runs quite happily in text mode on
386s (but don't try X). Given a driver that can paint text on a
graphics screen from glyph bitmaps (standard stuff), there are
versions of emacs (also xterm and some of the standard Unix
utilities) that have a fair level of Unicode support, and will
provide fairly complete support as soon as somebody finishes writing
them, and somebody gets the fonts together. Volunteers welcome. More
information is available on the linux-utf8 mailing list.
At 3:22 AM -0700 9/22/99, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
>Subject: UTF-8 mailing list
>To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
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>
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>
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