From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LIyVN-0007TI-HQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:57 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIyVM-0007TD-4l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:56 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIyVK-0007Sq-ME for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:55 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44923 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIyVK-0007Sn-HS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:54 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:18296) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LIyVK-0003tS-1o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:52:54 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j32so3806448waf.26 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:52:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hJjSGAYnyHCZQlEa6B5D9lUIvuXnGXm8waQJ9NlnfrE=; b=SqR9aYoj9ojgmT2FkAIIbIFugZp5zUkN46naIWr3EGgnSh6e++eqUOWC2KQoTJrwjP lGZllaI/Ywa6GUG/80sj8U1C2KE7/K9mIduxKUCc+5oCzF20jP4NWkDhhpXeQL4yulRR 3+nxuIRPqKQRqfgyenKLqGQORwrUW4tGUnbhI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=RCw0MawbFW0wUNiJTSELG/DfGvPYYhTz2hnrz+XeLSJIqrfy8oWKocjiW7BWPOM50R xd0OJvjrGYPztjh0LQcphbehBEX6MyCjjvGclVVqBD8hcu54e8BmWaUrVqtn+LQCvqHJ gXvLNa8JSVI5llIV7eSgdHwDI6lSpBd6kChmU= Received: by 10.114.145.1 with SMTP id s1mr12232517wad.118.1230958372021; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.13.4 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:52:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:52:51 +0800 From: Bean To: "The development of GRUB 2" In-Reply-To: <495E9BF2.8070003@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080901092753.3918cf73@gamma.lan> <20081030121106.4efffecc@gibibit.com> <20081030205736.7e080a5e@gibibit.com> <493ADE06.7080001@nic.fi> <20081222091443.7280e623@gibibit.com> <49513053.20207@nic.fi> <20081223171711.15128818@gibibit.com> <4956C98F.3030006@nic.fi> <9f50a7a00901021444j486addd5he087dd8896afdf87@mail.gmail.com> <495E9BF2.8070003@nic.fi> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:52:56 -0000 On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen wrot= e: > Jerone Young wrote: >> I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. But the >> dependency on a proprietary java stack to generate fonts isn't good. D= oes >> it happen to work with gcc java ? > > Paying attention is not a bad thing as such :) > > Never tried it myself but it should work. There isn't anything special > on it. As long as Java 1.5 is being supported. > > Anyway... idea was to get rid of it as soon as possible. I just didn't > feel right to hold features because of this. Hi, I think we can use freetype2 library. It supports both bitmap and outline fonts, and we don't need to parse font file ourselves. BTW, where can I find document on the new font format ? --=20 Bean