Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp

[Daniel Brooks]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> fbterm already provides at least basic Unicode support. As in, it is
> not limited to displaying 256 or even 512 characters, and it uses
> libfreetype to draw glyphs. I have not tested whether it supports
> complex text shaping or color emoji.
>
> (It is not a kernel module, just a normal userspace binary talking to 
> /dev/fbN.)

Wow, I had no idea this existed. This would obviously be the place to
start, if anyone were crazy enough to try to make a better in–kernel
console. It’s already a lot more advanced than what I was imagining.

db48x