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Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:11:23 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:06 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > I think using system fonts is fine. Current update-grub has logic to detect
> > them, and enable them when present. It checks (via grub-probe) that GRUB
> > will
> > be able to read them before doing so. Additionaly, the grub.cfg it
> > generates
> > will instruct GRUB to fallback sanely to console when fonts aren't readable.
>
> You probably misunderstand. System fonts are located in BIOS. I think
> it might also be possible to read them back from a VGA compatible card.
Sorry, I wasn't very explicit. When I said system fonts I meant e.g.
unicode.pff.
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Robert Millan
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