From: Fabian Merki <fabian_at_merkisoft.ch>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:07:57 +0200

hi uwe

i'm swiss and i have exactly the same problem...

so anyone who can help will already have 2 supporters!

fabian

----- Original Message -----
From: Uwe Freese
Sent: 27.08.2002 15:39:47
To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Trouble with loadable fonts

> Hello,
>
> I tested around with loadable fonts, because I want to see the "german
> umlauts" correctly (the size of the standard font is ok for me).
>
> First question: Why aren't the german characters (umlauts äöü)
> displayed in the non-loadable-fonts version? They are available in
> both ANSI and Ascii table. Is the standard font only Ascii 7 bit?
>
> Then I compiled a version with loadable fonts and the 5x7.bdf (which
> is ISO8859-1 and should contain the 'umlauts', shouldn't it?). But
> after starting, rockbox tells me "No font specified" (I copied the
> system.ajf to the AJB).
>
> I downloaded 5x7 and 5x8 (both ISO8859-1) fonts from somewhere, but
> bdf2ajf exits with a segfault. I think there are too many characters
> in this bdf file. But adf2ajf should ignore the additional ones
> instead of crashing, of course. (I don't know how to change the bdf
> file manually so that it works with the current bdf2ajf.)
>
> Has anybody a font for me that's equivalent to the font of the
> fixed-font-version (only with 'german umlauts')?
>
> Bye, Uwe.
Received on 2002-08-27