Re: font in open firmware

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 07:39, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> I have implemented a new function getcharwidth in the terminal interface. I
> updated all terminals for PC but didn't ofconsole. This is only because I
> don't know how it behaves precisely.
>
> According the standard, the default font seems to be
> implementation-dependent. There is an attribute "character-set", but I
> don't know if this is used.
>
> So, in reality, what kind of font is used in Open Firmware? Does it only
> contain US-ASCII or is it like the VGA font? For now, ofconsole does not
> map any Unicode character to another character, but does this work well?

Now I really use getcharwidth in the menu interface. So the menu interface 
will be broken until someone implements getcharwidth for ofconsole.

Okuji