> Has anyone given any thought to updating the default 8x8 (kf_8x8.c) 
> font?  One good reason to switch is that the lower case L "l" and the 
> pipe character "|" are identical.  Before I updated my kernel, this 
> caused me quite a few problems.

I haven't ever had problems with it and I like this font a lot so...
At most I would be willing to change the 'l' to be less like the
'|' character (perhaps adding a tail.)

Of course you should feel free to change it on your system (it sounds
like you did already :)