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

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

There were multiple attempts to add this functionality in kernel
space. Adding a full rendering engine in the tty driver is not a good
idea IMHO; and is never going to be accepted, Alan Cox among others
have clearly asserted it. Those should be done at the user-space, just
like it is being attempted now.

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