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* Major changes in console-tools-0.2.3:
** Italian, Danish, and Estonian messages.
** Several bugfixes. Please look at the ChangeLog file for details.
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* Major changes in console-tools-0.2.2:
** Russian and german messages.
** Several bugfixes. Please look at the ChangeLog file for details.
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* Major changes in console-tools-0.2.1:
** Czech messages.
** Several bugfixes. Please look at the ChangeLog file for details.
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* Major changes in console-tools-0.2.0:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** Fully gettextized, ready for l10n.
*** Iso-8859-15 support.
*** psfaddtable(1) long option --chartable was renamed to --sfm.
*** New numbering scheme: 0.2.x is the first stable branch, 0.3.x will
be the first unstable branch, and so on, just like what the Linux
kernel uses.
*** The data files are now distributed in the `console-data' package.
*** The configure script accepts a --with-unicodedata option to allow
giving a path to the UnicodeData file, available in console-data or on
unicode.org.
*** A CVS repository has been set up, although it is not available for
public access yet - still experimenting.
** Corrected bugs:
*** unicode_start does not use the compatibility setfont script any more.
*** minor fixes to openvt(1).
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* Major changes in console-tools-1999.03.02:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** This release should compile without rerunning automake.
** Corrected bugs:
*** german and swedish keymaps were fixed.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1999.02.28:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** Should now compile out-of-the-box on all Linux archs (hopefully).
*** Many new and updated data files.
*** New keysym: Uncaps_Shift is an alias for CapsShift (from kbd 0.97).
*** New contrib programs cad, font2psf and splitfont (from kbd 0.97).
*** New program openvt (formerly known as `open'), based on the one in
kbd 0.97.
*** consolechars now supports the --rom-font command for kernels
supporting reloading a font from video ROM (from kbd 0.97).
*** loadkeys now supports ISO-8859-14 (latin8) symbols for Celtic charmap.
*** showkey now supports a --unicode mode (preliminary support).
*** Package has been gettextized. Localazation in french and gaelic has been
started (both are really young for now !).
*** All program now support long options, especially --help and --version.
*** More consistency with GNU tools, by using stdout for printing when
invoked with --help or --version.
*** (mostly) In sync with kbd 0.97.
*** Start of a Linux Console CREDITS file.
** Corrected bugs:
*** Stop sending SIGWINCH to process specified by /tmp/selection.pid.
*** Did not try /dev/tty0 when looking for a VC.
*** Fixed a bug preventing to load some PSF files.
*** Suppressed spurrious "Trying..." debugging messages when loading a
font, and configured --without-debugging.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1998.08.11:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** First support for the new KDFONTOP kernel interface, up to date with
kernel 2.1.115 (no support for custom font-width yet).
*** Support for CP file-format was temporarily dropped. It should
come back with the next release.
*** New keymap `sundvorak'.
*** Updated keymaps for Linux/Atari.
*** New keymap include file vim-compose-latin1.inc, to get VIM-like
compose sequences.
*** showcfont(1) now uses a 32-column layout when displaying a
512-chars font, so that it fits on a standard 80x25 screen.
*** charset(1) is now documented.
*** Real implementation of high-level libcfont has begun.
*** XPSF draft file-format has been revised. Implementation should
start with the next release. Please comment.
** Corrected bugs:
*** Writing an SFM in a PSF file was not bigendian-safe.
*** consolechars(8) could be interrupted by a SIGCHLD while reading a
font.
*** unicode_{start,stop} are now more robust; they had problem when
the keyboard and display modes were out-of-sync.
*** showcfont(1) was still documented in showfont.1.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1998.06.03:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** Up to date with kbd 0.96a.
*** `showfont' has been renamed to "showcfont" to avoid a name-clash
with an xcontrib program.
*** `consolechars' now accepts a --g1 option, which activates the G1
charset with the user-defined ACM, instead of the G0 charset, which
is the default.
*** New script `charset' to allow the user to setup G0/G1 charsets.
*** `loadkeys' now supports a --quiet option, as well as different
verbosity levels.
*** `dumpkeys' now supports more output formats (see new --shape
option).
*** Keymaps now support include files, "strings as usual" and "compose
as usual" shortcuts, and symbolic names for the 3rd argument in
Compose statements.
*** New keymaps: i386/qwerty/{ru-yawerty,ru_win}, mac/mac-us-{std,ext}.
*** Updated keymaps: dk, dk-latin1.
*** Specific symbols for latin5 (iso-8859-9) are now supported by
loadkeys and dumpkeys.
*** Keymaps are now organized in a hierarchical manner to ease user's
choice.
*** File specifications can now include sequences of star characters
in their path, with the meaning of "at most as much subdir-levels as
the number of stars". Eg, "/usr/share/keymaps/**/mymap" can match
"/usr/share/keymaps/mymap", "/usr/share/keymaps/mac/mymap", or
"/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/mymap". Note that "any/*/dir",
unlike in the shell-syntax, can match "any/dir" as well as
"any/other/dir". Please try not to rely too much on this syntax (I
don't like it, and it may change), which kbd 0.96{,a} uses almost
only internally, although console-tools uses it externally too. I
document it so you know it is there, should the need arise.
*** Keymaps are now refered to as "keymaps", not "keytables". This is
reflected in the directory name (/usr/share/keymaps/), and the
manpage name (keymaps.5). Note that /usr/local/share/keytables/ is
still scanned in addition to /usr/local/share/keymaps/ when
--enable-local-dir is configured.
*** keypad.kmap is now installed as keypad.inc. It should be included
in your keymap.
*** `loadkeys' now supports a --quiet option, as well as different
verbosity levels.
*** `dumpkeys' now supports more output formats (see new --shape
option).
*** Improved autogenerated sample fallback table for latin diacritics
(renamed to latin_diacr.fallback); added autogenerated sample
fallback table for arabic forms.
** Corrected bugs:
*** Option handling in `loadkeys' and `dumpkeys' was broken with
--help and usage messages not causing the program to exit.
*** Keymaps without a "keymaps" line are now correctly handled.
*** "make install" does not fail if a previous version is already
installed.
*** Corrected various minor bugs, and some erroneous documentation.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1998.04.08:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** The SFM fallback-tables can now be safely compressed, and are
installed compressed by default.
*** The tools can now handle data files compressed with any supported
method, not just the one selected.
*** Now support the bzip2 and lzop compression programs.
*** HTML docs are build by default.
*** The lct.sgml document was (hopefully) improved.
*** Builds of resizecons and keycode-progs now enabled by default, so that
I get quicker feedback on what problems they may cause on other archs.
*** New keymaps: croatian, cz-us-qwertz, sunt5-fr-latin1
** Corrected bugs:
*** Compressed-file handling should not cause reads to fail any more because
of SIGCHLD.
*** There was a poorly-tested problem with compressed-file handling.
*** The Makefile.am's were fixed to fully support "uninstall" and build
in any dir.
*** Fixed se-latin1 keymap for caps-lock on 3 characters.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1997.12.16:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** The SFM fallback-table mechanism has been improved: multiple
tables may be loaded with one command.
*** The keyboard tools now support ethiopic keysyms (from kbd-0.95).
*** "consolechars -U" now outputs corresponding UTF chars inside
comments.
*** Data files were sync-ed to kbd-0.95.
** Corrected bugs:
*** The compressed-files installation problem has been fixed.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1997.11.13:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** Written some doc; have a look at doc/lct.txt.
*** All provided fonts are now either in PSF or in CP format; several
PSF now include their SFM as well.
*** consolechars(8) has started to supports "SFM fallback tables" (-k
option). Support is however limited to one fallback-table per
command-line invocation, and implementation is not really
satisfying.
*** consolechars(8) now support 2 new flags: "--no-act" and
"--default-font", the latter being equivalent to setfont(1) called
without arguments.
*** filename-syntax for default fonts has changed: "default8x08"
instead of "default8x8", for better file-sorting.
*** updated/new keymaps: "fi-latin1.kmap", "ru-ms.kmap".
** Corrected bugs:
*** compat scripts now call consolechars(8).
*** gzip issuing warnings should not cause programs to fail with only
little clue. We now let gzip print its warning, and it's not fatal
any more.
*** "gr*.psf" were NOT PSF files (RAW format) !
*** "configure --enable-local-datadir" prevent correct compilation of
the package.
*** Fixed consolechars.8.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1997.10.28:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** setfont(8) has been renamed consolechars(8).
*** setfont(8), loadunimap(1), saveunimap(1), mapscrn(1) are available, as
wrapper scripts around consolechars(8), by using the --use-kbd-compat
option to `configure'.
*** clrunimap(1) is no more installed by "make install". You'll need to
install it manually if you really want it, which you probably don't.
*** showfont(1) has been thoroughly rewritten. It now uses left-to-right-then-
top-to-bottom display style, as was probably expected by many people ;),
and can now display 512-chars fonts. Some bugs were fixed (see below).
*** New keymap (keypad.kmap, extracted from lt.kmap) allowing build of UCS2
chars using Ctrl-Shift-numbers, to be used as overriding keymap.
Eg. of use: "loadkeys fr-pc keypad"
*** New program vt-is-UTF8(1), to check if a VT is in UTF8- or byte-mode.
*** unicode_start(1) doesn't load a default font any more when called without
arguments; it just switches to screen and keyboard modes.
*** Several new manpages.
*** Updated the following data-files: lt{,.l4}.kmap
lat4{,u}-{08,10,12,14,16,16+,19}.psf lat4{,u}.sfm koi8-r.sfm cf.kmap
*** New 512-chars font file LatArCyrHeb (in size 8, 14, 16, 16+, 19),
containing all characters from iso8859-1 through -10, except from -5 (greek
characters).
** Corrected bugs:
*** Fixed showfont(1) display of characters 27 and 27+128.
*** Fixed dumpkeys(1) check of the validity of "--charset" argument.
*** Fixed loading of CP font-files.
*** Fixed display bug in showkey(1), when called with no command.
*** Fixed showfont(1) to restore original mode (UTF8- or byte-) on exit.
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* Major changes in console-tools-1997.10.14:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** `setfont' now loads the default unimap ("def.uni") when loading a default
font, to help the kernel keeping up-to-date unimap.
*** Added warning-printing to `setfont' for operations leading the kernel
to an invalid-unimap state ("load a font" && "-u none" || "load a font not
containing a unimap" && "no external unimap specified").
*** `resizevt' has been renamed `resizecons' again, as all VTs (for noa) are
resized at the same time.
*** Added "--with-compressor" option to `configure' script.
*** Several manpages updates.
*** New doc file: BUGS (formerly contained in TODO).
** Corrected bugs:
*** Fixed "setfont -{op,opu}" to correctly outputs 512-chars fonts when
console is in 512-chars more.
*** Fixed "setfont -{or,op,opu} to be robust, and not to produce invalid
or empty font-files when all data isn't available.
*** Fixed "setfont -{ou,opu}" to handle the case where the unimap is
considered invalid by the kernel.
*** Fixed behaviour of `deallocvt' - now tries do deallocate all args, even if
one failed.
*** Fixed "--help" handling in `dumpkeys' - now lists really-available charsets
for "--charset" option, instead of hard-coded string.
*** Fixed validity check on arguments to "--charset" in `dumpkeys' - now
properly rejects requests for unknown charsets.
*** Fixed problem which used to forbid the tools to use "-" as filenames on
command-lines when the compression-support was not compiled in.
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* Major changes from kbd-0.94 to console-tools-1997.10.03:
** Note-worthy changes:
*** source-tree was completely reorganized, and now uses autoconf/automake/
libtool to build.
*** PSF font-files can now be safely compressed.
*** 16-bit screen-maps can be loaded (by "setfont -m" or "mapscrn"), instead of
just 8-bit maps interpreted as straight-to-font. This allows to have
correct interpretation of chars sent to the console, even when the input
encoding does not completely map to the font. Test for example something
like "setfont iso02.f08 -u iso02 -mlatin1" to display, as far as possible,
latin1 texts with a iso02 font loaded.
*** Generated 16-bit screen-maps are provided for common encodings. Take a
look at consoletrans/UTF-tmpl.8bit if you need some more.
*** "setfont -om" now produces a 16-bit binary map instead of a 8-bit one.
"setfont -m" can read them.
*** spawn_console and spawn_login are not built any more, as "init" should be
used to log into dynamically spawned consoles if no more than that is
needed. They are still provided as example code for those who'd like to
customize their console-spawn mechanism.
*** "resizecons" and "sti" have been respectively renamed "resizevt" and
"writevt" for consistency.
*** Programs can now search /usr/local/share/ as well as /usr/share/ for input
files, but it is disabled by default, because probably not
FSSTND-compliant. See "configure --help".
*** setfont(8) can now ouput PSF files: mode 0, ie. 256 chars without unimap, with
-op; mode 2, ie. 256 chars with unimap, with -opu.
*** setfont's "-o" option has been obsoleted by "-or", for "old RAW font", but is
still accepted for compatibility. "-op[u]" should probably be used whereever
"-o" was used.
*** showkey(1) now accepts one more command (--keymap) to allow installers to
test a new keymap.
*** showkey(1) now allows the user to set the timeout (--timeout); still
defaults to 10s.
*** "Magics" for MS-DOS CPI files, and codepage(1)-produced CP files are now
available (see fontfiletools/fonts.magic).
*** Added documentation on font-file formats used.
** Corrected bugs:
*** reading a unicode-map from a PSF file is now bigendian-safe.
*** Compressed files are now identified by checking magic numbers instead of
filename's extension.
*** Compressed files are now found even when given fullname including ".gz"
suffix.
*** vcstime now correctly handles screen widths from 128 up to 255
(limitation is now in /dev/vcsa structure).
*** Now setfont rejects "-m none -m <file>" and "-u none -u <file>".
*** screendump doesn't need /dev/vcsa0 any more, but /dev/vcsa.
*** showkey(1) now properly rejects simultaneous multiple commands.
*** showkey(1) now properly reports when keyboard was in unicode mode.
