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diff --git a/system/gnu-unifont/README b/system/gnu-unifont/README index 1e4ed63f18448..1e7e3058f1bb7 100644 --- a/system/gnu-unifont/README +++ b/system/gnu-unifont/README @@ -3,9 +3,20 @@ Unicode Basic Multilinguial Plane(BMP). The BMP is the first Unicode "plane" of 65,536(16bit) code points, and includes character encoding for most of the world's modern scripts. -This package installs precompiled fonts only. +By default, the package will include precompiled versions of the font in +TTF (TrueType), PCF (X Window bitmap) and PSF (console) formats. This can be +changed using FONTFORMATS environment variable, which should be set to +comma-separated list of font formats to include in the package. -By default, the package will include TTF (TrueType), PCF (X Window bitmap) -and PSF (console) fonts. This can be changed using FONTFORMATS environment -variable. Its default value is "ttf,pcf,psf". For example, setting -FONTFORMATS=pcf,psf will include only PCF and PSF fonts. +Available formats are: + +ttf = TrueType +pcf = X Window bitmap +psf = Console fonts +otb = OpenType Bitmap fonts, compatible with recent versions of Pango which + don't support PCF fonts. Fonts in this format are generated by + converting precompiled PCF fonts using fonttosfnt tool. + +For example, setting FONTFORMATS=pcf,psf will include only PCF and PSF fonts. +If FONTFORMATS variable is not set the default value "ttf,pcf,psf" is +assumed. |