Console Fonts

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:07, Gertjan Vinkesteijn wrote:
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>>Simos Xenitellis wrote:
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>>>...
>>>This is the soft way to enable Punjabi fonts "soon". I think you can get
>>>fonts in the kernel as mentioned by Gertjan but this requires prompt
>>>action and then patience :)
>>>
>>>Good luck,
>>>Simos Xenitellis
>>>http://simos.info/
>>> 
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>>It is not so dramatic as it seems to be, if you get a new kernel source 
>>update from redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, freedsb, oh my Gosh I am 
>>touching the weak marketing position of Linux/Unix *) a trademark of 
>>whom? Yes we all know...
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>I suppose it is a cultural issue. I wished "Good luck" because it is
>common in my culture. Even the teachers put "Good luck" at the end of 
>the exam questions and they did not do it in an ironic way (well, in
>some exams...).
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>There is some time between the inclusion of the fonts in the kernel and
>actually the specific kernel being used by distros like Fedora. Trying
>to maintain a custom kernel may put to much work on the volunteers doing
>the Fedora localisation. The natural way is to schedule for inclusion in
>the kernel and way for things to propagate. If you have the resources,
>go for a custom kernel.
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>In addition, a position I see in open-source software is to maintain
>private patches and not getting exposed to the international community
>by submitting to the maintainer of the package and understanding any
>propagation delays downstream.
>
>simos
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Thank you Simos, it is so nice that you can also open a fortune cookie 
and let a butterly starts changing the world for us.

In the new kernels everything is done in UTF-8, look for instance at the 
latest Fedora Kernel document:
    /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1/Documentation/unicode.txt


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Vink

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