Re: terminal enhancement

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

>> What I mean is that the character 
>> 'a' always has the same size, unless you are using some ttf-fonts. 
>> Do you have bigger characters in mind?
>
> Surely. For example, look at this one:
>
> http://yudit.org/images/yudit-2.4.8.gif

[...]

> When implementing a terminal, never assume (the number of bytes) == (the 
> number of columns) or (the number of characters) < (the number of 
> columns). A given character can be one-column or two-column in the 
> current implementation of GRUB. If we want to support Hindi, things 
> will be more complicated.

I understand.

Thanks,
Marco