Re: box drawing characters vs. WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_ISO

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:55 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> > On 2nd thought - how likely are we to ever have real life fonts with
> > character numbers above 0xff?
>
> "Ever"'s a long time.  I don't expect it to be more than another  
> decade
> or two before <16-bit characters seem a quaint archaism.  (Though
> perhaps the "we" of that question won't be around by then....)
>
> Of course, then, people will be saying the same thing with  
> 0xffff...all
> we learn from history is that we never learn from history.

Well, imposing a 256 character limit seems wrong to me so I moved the  
marker further up - I think it will take a while till we have fonts  
with 16 million actual characters, and then Someone(tm) needs to  
rewrite wscons anyway and those fonts will probably include box  
drawing characters ;)

have fun
Michael

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