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Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkco
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Felix Zielcke |
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Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2 |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:04:43 +0200 |
Am Samstag, den 08.08.2009, 01:49 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 07:36 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>
> > > Could you please explain what I should do to keep using ascii.pf2? I
> > > checked the script, but don't see any variable controlling that. "make
> > > install" would install both unicode.pf2 and ascii.pf2, so unicode.pf2
> > > would always be preferred.
> >
> > With the old code ascii.pf2 would be always preferred.
> > There wasn't either a way to specify it.
>
> I see. Maybe that's what we should have fixed first.
>
> > > If changing the default, it's a good style to provide an easy way for
> > > users to keep the old setting, and I just don't see it, short or
> > > removing /usr/src/unifont.bdf and /usr/local/share/grub/unicode.pf2 so
> > > that they are never reinstalled or detected by GRUB.
> >
> > Here's now a patch which allows users to specifiy the used font with
> > GRUB_FONT=ascii
>
> First of all, I hope that the patch you will actually commit will use
> sane formatting. Diffs that ignore spacing changes are OK for review,
> but not for applying as is.
Yes.
> I think it would be more natural to let the user specify the full path
> to the file. Setting LANG=C seems unneeded in this case. After all,
> it's the user's choice, and we cannot examine the font file to check
> which characters it has.
Ok here's a new one.
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer
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- [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/06
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Robert Millan, 2009/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/07
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Pavel Roskin, 2009/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Pavel Roskin, 2009/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2,
Felix Zielcke <=
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Pavel Roskin, 2009/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] move functionality of font_path() directly to util/grub-mkconfig.in and prefer unicode.pf2 over ascii.pf2, Felix Zielcke, 2009/08/08