Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

[Arthur Marsh]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote, on 2008-12-28 11:04:
> Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > Well, I don't have time right now to rewrite the converter; not for a
> > couple of weeks, at least.  I'm certainly willing to do it, so I'll get
> > to it when I can, and then we can replace the Java converter.
>
> While we wait for that I have here a counter patch for the font engine.
>
> If there are no comments about it in near term this will be committed to
> SVN.
>
> To use automatic font conversion (unifont.bdf->ascii.pf2 and
> unicode.pf2), install bf-utf-source (ubuntu and probably debian). Font
> converter uses Java temporary. So when font compilation is enable font
> converter will be compiled and executed. Otherwise Java is not needed in
> anyway. Tested with Sun Java 1.6 on x86-64.

bf-utf-source is in Debian:

Package bf-utf-source

    * etch (stable) (devel): Source for fonts needed to build Debian 
installers
      0.05-0.1: all
    * etch-m68k (devel): Source for fonts needed to build Debian installers
      0.05-0.1: all
    * lenny (testing) (devel): Source for fonts needed to build Debian 
installers
      0.05-0.1: all
    * sid (unstable) (devel): Source for fonts needed to build Debian 
installers
      0.05-0.1: all

Arthur.