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Article: 14235 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Bitstream Vera Fonts work with Kermit 95
Date: 24 Apr 2003 11:39:12 -0400
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In article <8TDpa.21775$7M5.1588527@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
Jeffrey Altman [Road Runner NYC] <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
: Bitstream and the Gnome Project have worked to release a set of Open
: Source fonts...
:
: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
:
: The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font is not as well populated as other
: Unicode True Type Fonts...
:
A quick inspection of this font shows it's not much more than ASCII plus
Latin-1: It has the Euro symbol, a couple Greek letters, a few letters
needed for Polish/Czech/Turkish, a few symbols from the Apple Quickdraw set
(per mille, "smart quotes", etc) and that's about it. It doesn't even have
line/box-drawing characters (what Jeff meant by "terminal graphics").
Although it is an attractive and readable font and installs effortlessly on
Windows, it's not particularly useful for terminal emulation. Compare
(e.g.) with Courier New or Lucida Console, both of which come with recent
Windows versions and handle most terminal emulation tasks including math,
technical, and forms, plus Greek and Cyrillic, and (Courier New only) Arabic
and Hebrew.
- Frank