Post #4248415

The tech world is full of weird shit. Instead of adding features to the specification of your console/virtual terminal so it can support things like Unicode character rendering, fonts or true colour, we just ended up writing "terminal emulators" instead so you could have a graphical program on top of a display server pretend to be a terminal. The standard inbuilt Linux console still doesn't support anything beyond 8 colours and 512 characters in shitty lil keymaps. If I want a somewhat usable terminal workflow for working with world languages (say, Arabic script and kanji at the same time), or just use programs that render characters like arrows or circles, I need to start a display server/client architecture with a program as a client that emulates a terminal using 2D rendering.