From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on sa.int.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Message-ID: <50E02BD5.7050000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:56:05 +0400 From: Alexey Gladkov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Grayson , kbd References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre OpenPGP: id=4CFFD434; url=http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&search=0xA45ABA544CFFD434 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd: additions to the Unicode map for 12x22 fonts X-BeenThere: kbd@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux console tools development discussion List-Id: Linux console tools development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:56:09 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: 29.12.2012 10:36, David Grayson wrote: > Hello, Alexey. > > My name is David. I found your email address in the README of the kbd > package at ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/legion/kbd/ . I would > like to submit the following additions to the unimap for the sun12x22, > iso01-12x22, and iso02-12x22 fonts in the kbd package: Why only these specific fonts, but not other fonts? > # Different kinds of dashes and hyphens. > 0x2d U+00ad U+2010 U+2012 U+2013 > > # left/right single quotation mark > 0x60 U+2018 > 0x27 U+2019 > > > I noticed that when using any of these fonts in unicode mode, the > output from certain utilities was bad. The dashes that "man" uses to > wrap long lines were showing up as question marks inside a box. Also, > I was getting question marks inside boxes in place of the left/right > single quotation mark characters that "touch" outputs when you try to > touch a file in a directory that doesn't exist. Both of these issues > were fixed by adding the lines above to the unicode maps for these > fonts. > > The attached tar.gz file contains those additions in a file called > additions.uni, and it contains a little shell script you might want to > use to apply the patch to the existing fonts. > > With 1080p laptop displays being common these days, I think more and > more people are going to be using these 12x22 fonts and hoping that > they work properly. I am hoping that this fix can be pushed upstream > so that the next time I install Linux I don't have to regenerate the > console fonts myself, and so that others can benefit from the fix. > Are you the right person to email for that? Yes. There is also a mailing list: https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/kbd -- Rgrds, legion