[smc-discuss] Incorrect display of Malayalam in Terminal (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Praveen A]

2011/1/6 Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil at gmail.com>:
> The IIT Madras (oh, those sweet nostalgic names!!!) had done some work
> on this. Since this required some kernel work, the patch was submitted
> to the Kernel team, but Linus shot it down.

This does not need any change in kernel. For vitual terminals
(ctrl+alt+f1 ...) you will need changes in kernel driver. It could be
a different driver too. In Free Software you don't need anybody's
blessings, they can maintain it separately - out of tree - there are
so many such drivers - though it is preferable to be in upstream.

> Hope this team is not re-inventing the wheel.

If they are reinventing the whole responsibility lies with IIT Madras.
But they are not.
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