[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1401] Please add KOI8-R fonts to X.org tree

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Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk changed:

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------- Additional Comments From Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk  2004-09-22 05:01 -------
I produced all the *-iso10646-1 versions of the old BDF core fonts. Merging in
your Cyrillic glyphs into the Adobe BDF fonts is still on my todo list (along
with adding in some B&H extensions that I received from Charles Bigelow a while
ago, plus various Unicode 4.0 extensions that I received recently). Thanks for
the reminder.

An open and still unresolved question is the licence issue for these ancient
Adobe pixel fonts (Helvetica, etc.):

Are we still allowed to call these fonts "Adobe" after we have added lots of
glyphs that were not originally designed by either Adobe or B&H? You are trying
to add Cyrillic glyphs to Latin-only fonts that never did contain any Cyrillic
glyphs. When I did the ISO10646-1 extension, I simple reused and superimposed
glyphs that were already in the fonts. I did not add completely new glyphs,
which is what you suggest we should do here.

In practice, I don't believe that any original suppliers worries any more about
licence issues of ancient bitmap fonts, so I suggest that we just do it, unless
anyone here seriously objects.

What I will do is to merge these fonts properly with the ISO10646-1 fonts, and
from there various 8-bit fonts (including KOI-8R) can be automatically extracted
using the existing facilities. We should certainly not add these as separately
maintained 8-bit fonts.
        
   
   
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