All good points.

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1) I will= try converting some osifont code tables to centre line defined fonts for P= CB, which would address the licencing issue.

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2) = I will have a go at UTF-8 encoding of the input string.

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Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew would be the code pages I'd focus on= first in addition to the basic ASCII Roman.

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Cheers,

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Erich.

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<= div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak= <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:

Erich Heinzle wrote:

> I have already converted the hershey greek and cyrillic fonts, and wou= ld
> be able to support them most easily this way, plus, I could add suppor= t
> for subscript and superscript while I'm at it, as well as accents,=

This would sure be applauded by non-English geda users. (I assume, = =C3=A4=C3=BC=C3=B6=C3=9F
are included in "accents" :-) But even English speaking users may= like to
print an occasional =C2=B5F on their silk.

> Also on the to do list is a PCB compatible version of osifont, a free<= br> > cad font, but hershey sans stroke looks pretty nice as a default font<= br> > replacement in pcb so I've not been too motivated to get onto it.<= br>
From a license point of view, osifont seems the better choice as it = is a
clean "GNU GPL licence version 3 with GPL font exception".

With hershey the license is a bit non-standard. The license requires a
redistributor of the font to explicitly acknowledge its origin. The
license allows the user to convert the font data to any format except for the format used by NTIS:
https= ://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:HersheyFontLicense?rd=3DLicensing/Hersh= eyFontLicense

The second requirement already makes the font non-free in the Debian
world. Since pcb format includes the whole font as a set of glyphs, each and every *.pcb file may be regarded as font redistribution. Strictly
speaking, a plain drop-in replacement of the default font with Hershey may<= br> be interpreted as a license violation.

Consequently, fedora does not mark the font as free in the FSF sense:
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 https://fedoraproject.org/= wiki/Licensing:Fonts

I for one would welcome osifont as an option in the default install of
pcb.

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