From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] new font Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:03:24 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f67d6688-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 thanx to Skip Tavakkolian's bdf2subf (http://www.9netics.com/who/fst/) program I have converted the XFree86 utf-8 font that I use the most in UNIX. Here is a screenshot, comparing it with unicode.8.font: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/scr-9x18.png note how much better the other characters look. this font has additional 18x18kr and 18x18jp glyphs, which makes it pretty much the most complete font of them all. note, however that there are still some problems with accented capital letters (O, U on the first row) which I'm not sure whether to blame the font or the conversion for. since it comes from XFree86, the license (I believe) would be more liberal than some of the fonts currently in Plan 9. I would imagine that including it in the default distribution wouldn't be a problem, right? i've left the NUL glyph empty, so that bell-labs people will have the chance to add pjw's face as it is with all other fonts cheers, andrey ps: mail me for the font.. i haven't added the japanese and korean glyphs yet, but will do so later today. pps: Skip's bdf2subf program did all the work -- thank him for it :)