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16-bit screen-maps:
-----------------

16-bit screen-maps are used when the screen is in 8-bit mode (the default),
to define the character-set used by applications, by telling the kernel how
to interpret these 8-bit chars, in fact by telling to which Unicode character
they should be mapped.

The following files are 16-bit screen maps generated from the file
`UTF-tmpl.8bit', using the `2UTF' program:

iso{01,02..10}		ISO 8859 charsets
	cp437			IBM codepage 437 (corresponding to the
				default PC font)
	straight-to-font	Maps all application characters directly to
				the characters, using the straight-to-font
				unicodes.

8-bit screen-maps:
-----------------

8-bit screen maps should be considered obsolete, and should be rewritten as
16-bit maps where needed. They are used to map the charset used by the
application directly to the font in use, bypassing the unicode map describing
the font. Thus, a new 8bit screen-map has to be set each time the font is
changed.

The following are 8-bit screen-maps whose usefulness with current version of
the console driver/tools has to be investigated:

null
	space
	zero

The following are 8-bit screen-maps which may still be useful to some users,
but, as 8-bit maps, they will bypass the unicode map:

trivial		obsoleted by `straight-to-font' (16-bit)
	vga2iso
	koi2alt

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