[fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 12/22/20 2:39 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
>> As long as one knows why a certain temporal construct is used there is
>> no problem and at least in Germany (or more specifically Bavaria) we
>> were taught that in masses.
> As a native speaker of a language which only has three tenses and no
> grammatical gender, it's difficult to decide if the twelve tenses of
> English, or the three genders of German are the more confusing. :P
> (Probably still the latter, tho'... ;) )
>
> Anyway, any interest to develop Free Vision further is very welcome one,
> so we can move it from past tense to a future one. I still think text mode
> UI for console and terminals still has a place, but sadly the current FV
> implementation doesn't necessarily plays well on some Un*x terminals (it's
> highly dependent on the font, and many other factors), also a mono mode is
> sorely missing, which is a problem for both some modern and retro use
> cases. And yeah, on the high-end, Unicode would be needed.

Speaking of Unicode, I have started working on adding Unicode support to 
the keyboard, video and mouse units (which are used internally by FV) in 
the unicodekvm branch. So, if anyone is interested in adding Unicode 
support to FV, take a look at this branch.

Nikolay

>
> Charlie
>
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