Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 03:17:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time Message-ID: <36F68924.5A29BBBB@newsguy.com> References: <199903221806.LAA31867@pluto.plutotech.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > >It's also more irritating. Every font with the possible exception of > >DOS CPs use these characters, that I know of. The famous and widely > >used latin1 does. Whether the trade off is acceptable or not varies > >a lot. > > Right, so every font, except for the ones with exceptions, wouldn't have > any overrides in place and would rely on the default behavior. But good-looking mouse pointers are, as likely as not, more important than the characters lost. The present scheme is very close to the ideal. I'd rather prefer not having to recompile anything if I wanted this changed for a while, but that's all. Sure, YMMV applies, but from all I have seen, this seems to be the most common milleage. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Someone's trying to hack into our server." "Wow... How flattering!" "I know. There must be some mistake." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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