[Bug 1748495] The terminus font is no longer found by gvim, so text
files come up with glyphs instead of characters.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748495
--- Comment #29 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs(a)n-dimensional.de> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #20)
> @Patryk Obara There are tens if not hundreds of tickets in this bugzilla I
> opened in 2007 to get people to move and fix things while there was time
>
> Most of them were ignored or closed with comments like "I’ll believe I’ll
> need to fix things when things break".
>
> And now they are breaking. As announced. Complain at someone else there was
> no communication.
>
> At one point I stopped nagging people to tell them the clock was running.
> The maintainers who wanted to make an effort made it years ago.
Sorry, Nicolas. I appear to have read those bugs wrongly back then as
"switch from bitmap fonts to vector fonts". I cannot remember ever having
the faintest idea that those reports could have meant "convert your bitmap
fonts to this new format".
Anyway, now that this has been cleared up, what remains to do for me is
to convert Terminus to the OpenType format without too many conversion errors.
No idea yet whether I will use Terminus upstream's Python scripts to
generate PCF and then use fonttosfnt, or change upstream's Python scripts
to output OpenType, or use Terminus upstream's font sources as input to
yet another tool to generate OpenType.
I will have to evaluate all of these possibilities, and possibly more.
And I will keep generating the font files for the other two formats in the
same way (Linux virtual console and grub menu).
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