Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:18:29 +0300 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Eugene Ossintsev <osgene@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about font cleanup Message-ID: <20011124231829.GA12795@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011123201920.A396@badger.home> References: <20010727132229.B8030-300000@idemnia.ath.cx> <3BFCCE33.A73F605E@MyRealBox.com> <20011122153813.GA62978@nagual.pp.ru> <3BFD87B2.E9691603@MyRealBox.com> <20011122232925.GA67153@nagual.pp.ru> <20011123201920.A396@badger.home>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 20:19:20 +0100, Eugene Ossintsev wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > BTW, I see we have lots of fonts with broken standards conformance, > > so I plan big fonts cleanup in near time. > > What do you think of the font quality cleanup? I think we can prepare > nicer console fonts for FreeBSD than we have at the moment. And, at > least, in case of Latin and Cyrillic they can look identical in style > sense. It would be really great! > > I've got some fonts written from scratch and proved bit by bit by me > and two friends of mine. They are KOI8-R'd. We can start from them and > produce all others. Or we can start from any other font. But the final > point will be the quality original FreeBSD console fonts. Why not? It > sounds not so crazy? PR-submitted fonts always welcome. BTW, in normal Russian setup KOI8-R fonts not used, CP866 fonts + screenmap to KOI8-R used instead to avoid VGA 9bit problem on wide fonts. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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