$ J. Quast mentioned . .
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> 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 
> that ansi art would reproduce exactly.

Thats some awesome news, we really do need some better UTF-8 font support for
terminals all around.  And yes sir, this is the single FidoNet echo I have
setup on the board at this time.  I might add more areas at a later date but
I want to get msg groups and conferences added before I add a lot of areas.

$ J. Quast mentioned . .
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> There are some issues, notably, that its a fixed font. So it only looks goo
> with exactly 8x8 pixels or whatever it is... on my macbook retina display t
> 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

The fixed font seems to be the main issue, there are a few fixed now but of
course they all have the same problem. At select sizes the fonts look great,
but when you resize the spacing is all off.  Is there anyways jojo will make 
multiple sets,  like an in inital set at 8x8, then a second set at 16x16 or
even 32x32,  that way you can choose the different sizes and have them all
look good.  Probably the most ideal I would think although a lot of work i'm
sure. I've never tried to make fonts before, i wonder how much it's like
drawing ansi? :)

$ J. Quast mentioned . .
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> Its the in-betweens that don't line up. His current solution is with a vect
> 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 :-)

Ya, keep us posted.  This is really cool news that he's working on this.

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