Subject: Re: Introduction and a couple of questions
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/18/2005 17:10:40
On 2005.06.18 13:08:46 +0000, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated (well as soon as I get my keyboard  
> > > working nicely in the console I guess I am all set and ready to  
> > > venture on by myself).
> > 
> > Well, I had some trouble making the Portuguese keymaps for macppc because
> > the macppc console fonts don't support more than the basic sets of
> > characters (no accents and stuff like »«&%$|).
> > But I think in X11 it works fine.
> 
> In theory you can use any wscons font ( see src/sys/dev/wsfont/files.wsfont ) - some may have the necessary images, some won't ( martin recently added umlauts to the Gallant / Sun console font for instance, no idea if he committed it yet ). Just adding accents and other marks shouldn't be hard.
> 

I thought we're stuck by the font OFW provided us, but looks like not.

Thanks!

		-- Rui Paulo