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[PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors

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Message #74 received at 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated
 errors
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 15:17:13 +0200

On Sat, Jun 06 2015, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> On the Linux console, there are a maximum of 256 glyphs which can be
> displayed (or 512 if you're prepared to do without half of the colours),
> each of which can be assigned to an arbitrary set of unicode characters.
> This limit is a hangover from video hardware made ~30 years ago, and it
> is a shame that it still persists, even on modern software generated
> video.

There are graphical (framebuffer based, no X needed) terminal emulators
for GNU/Linux which don't have this limitation on the number of glyphs,
in particular fbterm is quite nice, see the thread around

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/143665

There's also the newer (and perhaps not so widely available?) kmscon.

(Also, FreeBSD now provides a very capable graphical console out of the
box.)

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