Re: Fonts for console/fb for various locales: a proposal

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 02:39:19PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> 4. Rasterizing (c). This is the whole purpose of METAFONT. METAFONT is a
> rasterizer.

Rasterization of vector fonts by privileged code has been a major source
of security holes in other operating systems.  Does the very limited
benefit really justify the risk?

Thor