Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:27:22PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Here is a patch that changes this gray pattern for unknown glyphs to 
> rounded question mark. This way user knows that something is missing :) 
> (and it is easily visible).
> 
> Another story is, should we provide default fonts and/or use system 
> fonts where available.

I think using system fonts is fine.  Current update-grub has logic to detect
them, and enable them when present.  It checks (via grub-probe) that GRUB will
be able to read them before doing so.  Additionaly, the grub.cfg it generates
will instruct GRUB to fallback sanely to console when fonts aren't readable.

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Robert Millan

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