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Old 08-27-2010, 08:41 AM   #11
scandum
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Re: Favorite FE or web-client?

He did email me about the subject.

One of the problems is that few people are enthusiastic about a mud font, making it difficult to get the feedback required to make a cross-server drawing set.

Second problem is that bitmap font editors are hard to find, and the one I got creates a font that works for rxvt, but it doesn't work for PuTTY (used by the windows port of TinTin++), and I have no idea why. Never been able to get bitmap fonts to work on Linux or Mac OS X consoles.

Third problem is that for cross-platform support a truetype font should be used, which is a lot harder to create than a bitmap font. Upside is that it would solve the second problem as there are good truetype font editors.

Fourth problem is that a traditional font only has 128 characters to spare, using 2 byte UTF-8 characters this goes up to about 1500-2000 characters, but not all clients support UTF-8.

What might work is to create a crappy truetype UTF-8 font, and hope someone will improve upon it.
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