>For example, 18x18ja.bdf in XFree86's CVS today is just about 4MB and >about 600kB when compressed. When we know that this font (or similar >one, which will be in similar size) is mandatory for CJK people, I >imagine nobody would think this size is too large to be included in >Linux source code.
It _is_ too large to be included. The kernel should include a Latin-1 font (for backwards-compatiblity) and let the user to load a large font if they want. >On the other hand, italics and bolds can be omitted because they are >not mandatory for any countries or languages in the world. Of course >I never insist Linux *shoud not* support italics and bolds. I just >pointed italics and bolds will have lower priority. Keeping the current features working is important; there's no way you're going to get the kernel developers to get rid of a working console implementation for one that doesn't support features that the developers use, no matter what you've added to it. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
