Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Re: Mtr prob request

Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>:

> I'm working on the UTF-8 support in the kernel right now.  I need a font with
> glyphs for at least some of the extra characters.  I can't just pull any old
> font off of a website and convert it to the right format for use in the kernel.
> I'm expected to draw my own glyphs.  Furthermore, I'm expected to write my
> own font editor to boot, (which I did last Sunday, actually).

Thx for this news and for your effort to each of you working on UTF-8.

You have possibly 2.5 bilions + 1 fans more as surely I add myself to those bsd citizens it is really
essential - for different reasons - having these chinese and non characters metabolized
at system level. Without mention, the pain thinking to the Linoox support of Unicode..



-- Daniele Bonini

Feb 28, 2023 10:42:52 Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>:

> I'm working on the UTF-8 support in the kernel right now.  I need a font with
> glyphs for at least some of the extra characters.  I can't just pull any old
> font off of a website and convert it to the right format for use in the kernel.
> I'm expected to draw my own glyphs.  Furthermore, I'm expected to write my
> own font editor to boot, (which I did last Sunday, actually).

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