On Tue, 25 May 1999, Kazuyoshi Kato(kaz-k) wrote:

>   Very very off subject, though I'm just wondering if we could
> reimplement dt to have multibyte capability, I mean a friend of mine
> asked me if he could use Japanese(and, probably Korean and Chinese as
> well) on raw console, so just wonder if we could give dt to understand
> them.

Could be doable, as dt already supports digraphs. It might even be
worthwhile, as afaik wscons doesn't support multibyte characters.
[Not so sure about that "we" stuff, though. :)] Take a look at the
source--dt is a very simple program.

>   Suppose it's much easier than porting KON(PLEASE don't ask me what it
> is! :-) to NetBSD/mac68k.

OK, I won't ask. But you'd have to steal the fonts from somewhere...