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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: Syscons with xterm emulation: one step closer to UTF-8 support?
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:59:08PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> 
> My question is if there are people out there who could help me
> implementing UTF-8 font rendering. I wouldn't have a clue where to
> start (yet).
> 

When implementing UTF-8 font rendering/creating UTF-8 fonts
please take into account 12x22 fonts as framebuffers used
on sparc64 have to be considered fixed mode and fonts
smaller than the Sun default look really bad with these
resolutions.

Marius