From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E80BZ-0008V2-Ro for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:41:18 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E80Aw-0008H3-0a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:40:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E80Ap-0008Be-8R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:40:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E80Ae-00085O-Vz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:40:21 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E801n-0000IK-Rw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:31:12 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871AD8C1C for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22810-09 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:29:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9B48C1E for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:29:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0685C047 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:29:58 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200508200739.04549.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:30:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200508200739.04549.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sat, 20 Aug 2005 07:39:04 +0200") Message-ID: <87u0hfur11.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: font in open firmware 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: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:40:39 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" 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