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On 12/18/2010 04:52 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> The only problem on GRUB side was ignoring errors from
> FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes. The underlying problem is that freetype is unable to
> scale bitmap fonts like unifont. You can either take the issue to
> freetype devs or use TTF fonts (TTF font of unifont is available)

That makes sense.  I tried using a ttf: 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-R.tff and get a 
bunch of unknown gsub feature errors for sups, tnum, ss01, sinf, salt, 
pnum, ordn, numr, frac, locl, dnom, case, and calt fetures.