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Re: FreeBSD i18n fonts for wscons



> Who does still use an 8bit national charset (except Windows)?
> 
I do.

> It's so last century.
>
I don't want a document to take twice as much disk space only because UTF is
so cool and everybody should be using it anyway.

<flame>
As to the ugly hack about lying that a font is "iso" encoded, it's a real
PITA ((next to) impossible) to get e.g. KOI8 graphics to work properly even
when using appropriate termcap entry which provides support for it.
</flame>

Just my 2Â.


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