Hi Slava,
Slava Voronzoff wrote on Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:01:26PM +0300:
> I'm working right now on adding cyrillic to Spleen font. How can I later
> add it to OpenBSD kernel and ports? Pull request to main font on github
> (Hi, Frederic) or patch here?
You cannot add it to the kernel because the kernel does not support
UTF-8, but only US-ASCII, and US-ASCII contains no code points for
cyrillic letters.
Full UTF-8 support is definitely not wanted in the kernel. Adding
extremely minimalistic UTF-8 support to the kernel is not completely
out of the question, but some developers are likely to feel sceptic even
about that. Consequently, trying to pursue a project of adding anything
related to UTF-8 to the kernel is likely to end in frustration if the
person trying that does not have a significant amount of experience with
getting OpenBSD kernel patches committed.
I'm sorry that i know absolutely nothing about fonts in ports, maybe
someone else can answer that part of the question.
Yours,
Ingo
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