Unicode (was Re: Updating ncurses in base)

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Jun 27 16:45:58 UTC 2006


Quoting "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd at opal.com> (from Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:09:13 -0400):

> On Jun 27, 13:13, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> >
>> >	- we may need to update the base fonts so that more
>> >	  iso10646 ones have more complete character support
>>
>> If there's not a BSD licensed replacement with at least the same
>> quality, this may be the hardest part.
>>
> I believe our 10646 fonts are those developed my Markus Kuhn at
> Cambridge, UK and documented here:
> 	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
> I'm not sure if ours are up-to-date or not.

So you are thinking about the fonts in X11? I thought you are talking  
about our console font.

Bye,
Alexander.

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