Jeff Thieleke (thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu) wrote:
> 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 would suggest changing the default font to something like the 
> ubiquitous pearl.font/8.  IMHO, Pearl 8 looks a lot better than the 
> current System font, and the "l" and "|" characters are distingishable.  
> Pearl.font has been around forever (I used ff to replace topaz.font 
> with it on KS 1.3...), and it has been included with my different 
> programs, so the copyright issue shouldn't be a problem.

The Amiga console driver of Linux/68k uses Pearl too.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/68k on Amiga,...       http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium