[DejaVu-fonts] Re: weird representation for FFFD

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 06 juillet 2005 à 22:33 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le mercredi 06 juillet 2005 à 22:17 +0200, David Jez a écrit :
> > > Well, Fedora already has its share of ugly fonts with wide unicode
> > > coverage. As we're only talking about a single character here,
> that does
> > > not seem too difficult to create (just add a black diamond to a
> question
> > > mark), I'd suggest you just get it into dejavu and I'll get the
> new
> > > dejavu version into Fedora Extras.
> > > 
> > > If you're quick it'll be available for users by early august.
> >   As you wish...
> 
> James Cloos already proposed to work on it. I must say it's great to
> have a reactive font project instead of packaging and installing
> scores
> of incomplete/different/frozen fonts just to get good glyph coverage.
> 
> And I hope this thread will inspire more people on the CCd lists to
> work
> through dejavu!

The symbol is in dejavu 1.12 which was released today on schedule, and
is now queued in the Fedora Extras build system. (I won't be there to
queue 1.13 though - it'll have to wait)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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