retrocomputing
I think the #1 thing that would bother me in going for console-mode only computing is the inability to handle Japanese and Arabic etc.
I have little hope that I can do multilingual text processing in the framebuffer. most *X terminal emulators* *still* don't handle RTL bidi, and it was a huge PITA to make what is now the standard IME (ibus) work on X.
I guess I could use the builtin IMEs from Emacs, if my EeePC can handle it…
re: retrocomputing
it's not like pgksrc will have packaged some sort of fast multilingual console for the framebuffer—-
> mlterm - The NetBSD Packages Collection
> mlterm is a Multi Lingual TERMinal emulator for X and framebuffer console.
well but everyone and their brother these days claim to "support" "Unicode" but all that they do is to render glyphs from font tables, it's not like most so-called Unicode terminal emulators can do bidi—
> mlterm is a very fast low latency terminal emulator that has many unique features such as rendering variable width fonts, proper bidirectional support out of the box, a daemon mode,
