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    Andries> Instead of writing down the current situation of the kernel
    Andries> keyboard/console drivers, I installed the xterm from
    Andries> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.html and the font
    Andries> from http://czyborra.com/unifont/ (I mean unifont.hex).  But
    Andries> there was no Tibetan in this font.

    Andries> readable but ugly.  Are there Tibetan fonts already?

    Andries> [Note: the above has no vowel signs, no digits, no punctuation,
    Andries> ...]

I don't have the time now, but someone should get the MetaFont sources for the
Tibetan font available from one of the CTAN archives (ftp.dante.de perhaps)
and use it as a template to make a fixed-width BDF font.  Generate the font
at 100dpi using the "next-scrn" font generation mode and you can import the GF
file into xmbdfed for editing.

For other scripts coming in Unicode 3.0:

A reasonable fixed-width classical Mongolian BDF font is available for free
from Dr. Oliver Corff:

  http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/MLS/overview.MLS.html

Dr. Corff also has the MetaFont sources for the Yi syllabary.
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