On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:17:23 +0200 Radovan Garabik wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:14:37PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Could these glyphs be added, please? > > Unfortunately, there are only 256 positions in the font, and it is > already packed full. You could drop some less used characters, but then > you'd get a different font, obviously...
That's really unsatisfactory: I am beginning to understand the limitations of the Linux console... :-( I am another user who would really love seeing a reimplemented Linux console with full Unicode support. > You can try the LatCyrGr-16.psf font, which has 512 positions (at the > price of missing bold attribute when on plain VGA console, however > framebuffer is OK) and some more characters (greek). I would miss the bold attribute on VGA (I don't use a framebuffer console). > > Or you could try the dynafont package, unfortunately it is not actively > maintained and you lose access to raw VGA hardware. This is unfortunately unacceptable: the package is not available in Debian testing and is claimed to be obsoleted by fonty-rg itself (see bug #474125)... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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