Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 11:09:25 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: INDEX.fonts Message-ID: <199606231809.LAA21253@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199606231720.VAA00797@nagual.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Jun 23, 96 09:20:50 pm
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It seems that =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= said: > > > It's a bogus little database for vidfont(1). My apologies for the > > descriptions of the iso-* cp866 and koi8-* fonts... I asked but noone > > seemed to be able to give me a definitive description of them :-( > > You can find detailed description of koi8-r encoding at: > http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/koi8.html Thanks, I'll dig through it! > > cp437-8x14.fnt::FreeBSD 2.1R English code page, 43 line > > FreeBSD prefix must be ommited, they are adapter binary font so they not > related to FreeBSD only (you can use them in DOS too). As I mentioned in my post, the prefix is there *for me* since I use that to distinguish between "FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R ", "DOS ", etc. fonts in my collection. Otherwise, you'd have to invent some other way of differentiating between a "cp437" font that, perhaps, came from DOS, FBSD 1.1.5.1, 2.1R or somewhere else. > "Code page" is IBM name for character sets, I don't think > that we need to use IBM names. Yeah, I guess we can pretend the "cp" in "cp437" means Completely Pretentious? :> I imagine that "code page" is the true origin of the "cp" prefix and, thus, used it in my description. (Hey, it gets tough trying to come up with short little descriptions... :> > "English" word (or any word related to language) must be used > very correctly, in this way you need to mention all languages > related to character set, i.e. all Russian character sets > really are "English & Russian". Yes, and I suppose we could also argue American vs. British "English"... Here, I used Microsplot's name for the "code page" ;-) > Line count not related to adapter font, you can have several > 50-lines modes with different fonts in general. > Better way refer to them as VGA/EGA/CGA fonts. I thought of "14 scan", "16 scan" and "8 scan" but felt that added very little information. I hope that the 25 line, 43 line (?) and 50 line descriptions can be more readily associated with a video mode of "80x25", "80x50", etc. Perhaps something else could be arranged but I think we want to NOT require folks to be aware of how many scan lines are used in each of the video modes, etc. (i.e. making FBSD more "user/newbie friendly") Of course, you guys are free to do with this as you please -- including toss it! :> Thanks! --don
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