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Re: Unicode console font
Den man, 13 sep 1999 skrev du:
> Birger> Den man, 13 sep 1999 skrev du:
> >> > Or you can extract SFM table from font by psfgettable(1).
> >>
> >> Aha. Now I understand what this SFM table is, that you are talking
> >> about. What does SFM stand for? FM=Font Map? S=?
>
> Birger> Screen Font Map
>
> Birger> I found some info on http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/
>
> Birger> In their package there is a draft for a new fileformat called xpsf
> Birger> by Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>, maybe we should check it out?
>
> It turns out that I already added SFM support to xmbdfed, I just did not know
> the term SFM at the time. When you export the font as PSF, the SFM table will
> be written out as well. It is essentially automatic.
Indeed you did, but it only goes up to number 0x1ff which is U+03ac =
the letter aŽ in cyrilic. I don't know if this is a limitation of the
current psf format or a bug. I can send you the sfm file I extracted
from unicode.bdf if it's any help.
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Birger Langkjer
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