From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LJCCR-0004vm-Ap for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:19 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJCCQ-0004vR-C2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:18 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJCCP-0004vB-Ei for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:17 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39909 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJCCP-0004v8-8q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:17 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:44863 helo=jenni1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJCCO-0005rN-Od for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:30:17 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (84.248.105.254) by jenni1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC59C7034562DF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: <495FBCC2.8020802@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:30:10 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Problem with fonts in different width X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:30:18 -0000 Bean wrote: > Hi, > > Unicode characters are split into two sizes, 16x16 and 16x8, and are > stored in different files, for example: > > f16.pcf.gz > -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-160-iso10646-1 > > h16.pcf.gz > -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 > > They can be converted to f16.pf2 and h16.pf2. However, only one font > can be active at at time. So if we use both full and half width > characters, some of them is not displayed properly. The pf2 format > seems to allow different font widths. Perhaps the converter should > allow multiple input, so that we can merge the two fonts into one pf2 > ? At least unifont.bdf file contains different size glyphs. I tried with multiple different glyph formats and it seems to include all glyphs I have tried. It is supposed that font file itself has every font needed. If your distribution does not feature unifont you can grab one from here: http://unifoundry.com/unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf.gz