This is release 0.3.3 of the Linux console-tools.

  This development release starts to add font-format independance to
 the libs and programs, simplifying the consolechars(8) command-line,
 and fixes a couple of small bugs.

  We still need developers, and TRANSLATORS for message localization
 (l10n).  Please have a look to the WWW pages for a list of tasks, at:
 among which l10n tasks are, at:
	http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/needed.html
	http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/l10n.html

This package is currently under development, use it at your own risks.
However, it should already be a good replacement for `kbd', and you
might like the features not found in the latter, but (as usual) you
have NO WARANTY of any kind.

Some interface-level features are still liable to change (program names,
option names, etc.).

Much work is still needed to really get Unicode stuff usable. Some
people have started fixing problems and implementing missing features
in the kernel's console drivers for this.  Such kernel patches are
included as (untested) contrib items.

This package is based on `kbd-0.94', and is mostly up to date with
0.99, of which it corrects some bugs, and to which it adds several
features (Message i18n, Screen-font-map fallback tables, 16-bit
Application-Charset Maps (also called "console maps" or "screen maps",
support of more font-file formats), can use "-" to read/write most
files to stdin/stdout, can make use of the G1 charset slot, etc.).


Please send all bug reports, suggestions, or anything else to myself,
(but take a look at the "TODO" file first), feedback will be greatly
appreciated.

Please get in touch with me before starting to modify this package, to
prevent duplicated work - it's enough work to keep in sync with new
kbd releases until we merge; as this code is expected to evolve quite
rapidly, it would also be helpful that not too many persons work on
the same pieces of code at the same time, to ease integration.

Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
