On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:17:23 +0200 Radovan Garabik wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:14:37PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Could these glyphs be added, please?
> 
> Unfortunately, there are only 256 positions in the font, and it is
> already packed full. You could drop some less used characters, but then
> you'd get a different font, obviously...

That's really unsatisfactory: I am beginning to understand the
limitations of the Linux console...  :-(
I am another user who would really love seeing a reimplemented Linux
console with full Unicode support.

> You can try the LatCyrGr-16.psf font, which has 512 positions (at the
> price of missing bold attribute when on plain VGA console, however
> framebuffer is OK) and some more characters (greek).

I would miss the bold attribute on VGA (I don't use a framebuffer
console).

> 
> Or you could try the dynafont package, unfortunately it is not actively
> maintained and you lose access to raw VGA hardware.

This is unfortunately unacceptable: the package is not available in
Debian testing and is claimed to be obsoleted by fonty-rg itself (see
bug #474125)...


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