Re: port-shark/37670: a lot of characters missing from igsfb wscons

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-shark/37670; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-shark-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-shark/37670: a lot of characters missing from igsfb wscons
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:22:32 -0700 (MST)

 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
 
 >>     As far as I can tell, igsfb is using in-kernel gallant12x22,
 >>     and that font does include nice glyphs at least at positions
 >>     0xdd-0xdf, which are not displayed on my machine.
 >
 >  It appears to me that the shark is actually using the gallant19 font
 > from sys/dev/wscons/wscons_rfont.h which is included in wscons_rinit.c.
 
    Hmmm, this still doesn't seem to explain things.  As far as I can tell,
 the gallant19 font in wscons_rfont.h doesn't have any characters defined 
 past 0x7f.  In addition, sys/dev/wsfont/wsfont.c will only have bold8x16
 by default if no other fonts were configured, and as far as I could tell, 
 the shark does not specify any additional fonts, and only bold8x16 is
 included.  The bold8x16 does have characters defined, but they are much
 different and do not appear to be used.
 
    So I can't figure out where the heck the font characters are really
 coming from.
 
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 Michael L. Hitch                       mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
 Computer Consultant
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