From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: font in open firmware
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:30:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0hfur11.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508200739.04549.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sat, 20 Aug 2005 07:39:04 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> I have implemented a new function getcharwidth in the terminal interface. I
> updated all terminals for PC but didn't ofconsole. This is only because I
> don't know how it behaves precisely.
>
> According the standard, the default font seems to be implementation-dependent.
> There is an attribute "character-set", but I don't know if this is used.
>
> So, in reality, what kind of font is used in Open Firmware? Does it only
> contain US-ASCII or is it like the VGA font? For now, ofconsole does not map
> any Unicode character to another character, but does this work well?
Can you please explain why this is important and what you mean? AFAIK
the console font on the new world apple is fixed width. On the
pegasos a text screen just like the PC is used.
I think ofconsole should map Unicode characters on the pegasos, the
menu does look very ugly here.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-24 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-20 5:39 font in open firmware Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-21 7:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-24 18:30 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-08-28 13:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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