$ Michael Griffin mentioned . .
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> The default VGA 80x25 seems to display everything perfectly!   Although, I
> have noticed some spacing that appears to be off on certain character here 
> there.  So it's possible a single character is not getting translated or on
> that is, is not displaying properly with its Unicode variant and those smal
> anomalies will be some work to track down. 

My friend jojo (actually, we're on fidonet here? he's on the defunct
comitte.. team), has been wroking on a "ugafont", a utf-8 + vga font system,
using some open source utf-8 font, but those cp437-equivalent glyphs your
translation table uses replaced with very accurate IBM-PC DOS CP437 glyphs so
that ansi art would reproduce exactly.

There are some issues, notably, that its a fixed font. So it only looks good
with exactly 8x8 pixels or whatever it is... on my macbook retina display this
is absolutely impossible to see. If you double it to 16x16, its not
pixel-perfect, but it is almost undistinguishable from a natural DOS system.

Its the in-betweens that don't line up. His current solution is with a vector
font that is basically composed of dots -- for some resolutions this works
perfectly, even looks exactly like a CRT monitor would, but for others its
just "dim" in apperance and hard to read.. I keep pressuring him to work on
it, I don't think he's stuck so much as he's just simply too busy.

I'm going to send him a note again, and let him know at least 1 other bbs
system out there can take advantage of it :-)

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