Console fonts : wording could be better

[ken@…]

After looking at a few of the terminus fonts, I wrote (re mapping multiple codepoints to one glyph) -

"Unfortunately, where a font has been created from a BDF file (the method in terminus and debian's console-setup such mapping of additional codepoints onto an existing glyph is not usually done."

For some of the terminus fonts, there is a limited amount of mapping of other glyphs, but in the cyrillic -cXXn variant the corresponding cyrillic capitals have separate (visually similar) glyphs to the corresponding latin glyphs (A,B,E,K,M,H,O,P,C,T,X), and similarly in the greek -7XXn variant (A,B,E,Z,H,I,K,M,N,O,P,T,Y,X).

But I have been looking at the details of ter-v28n with psftools, and discovered that there the corresponding cyrillic and greek codepoints are mapped to the matching latin glyphs. The v28n (512 character) versions are quite nice, although not always to my taste, and even I could probably get along with them without too much annoyance.

I propose to reword the text above and add the missing parenthesis to now read

"Unfortunately, where a font has been created from a BDF file (the method in terminus and debian's console-setup) such mapping of additional codepoints onto an existing glyph is not always done, although the terminus ter-vXXn.psf fonts do this well."

[bdubbs@…]

You are our expert when it comes to fonts. It really looks almost like a minor tweak to me.

Go ahead.

[ken@…]

Fixed at r17767.

[bdubbs@…]

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