Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:16:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010228001623.Q21238@garloff.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F110arjrfh6BYVKBLEB00013ccb@hotmail.com> <3A9BE5F3.780B24AE@transmeta.com> <20010227205837.A18843@win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010227205837.A18843@win.tue.nl>; from dwguest@win.tue.nl on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:58:37PM +0100

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:58:37PM +0100, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > You're much better off designing a larger ISO-8859-1 font and load in in
> > user space.  You can use the 12x22 font in the kernel as a base.
> 
> kbd-1.05 comes with sun12x22.psfu, which essentially is the kernel font
> together with a unimap.

Note, that I also have a SuSE12x22 font, which is based on the Sun font,
some charcaters slightly changed and added lots of 8859-1 symbols.
Isn't it included in kbd-1.04 and later, Andries?

I also have a patch to make it available for the kernel ...
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/

Regards,
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