From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Mon, 16 May 2011 19:43:39 UTC, Marcel Müller     
   wrote:   
      
   > > Is there a form of the OS/2 screen fonts available for us in linux?   
   >    
   > No, and it would not be reasonable either. Note that the OS/2 bitmap    
   > fonts are not Unicode aware and have only a limited character set.   
      
   Even the standard SBCS OS/2 bitmap fonts support over 1000 characters -   
   including Latin-1 and 2, DOS, MacOS and Windows symbols, Greek, Hebrew,    
   Baltic and Eastern European, Arabic, Thai, and a few others.  That's    
   as much as most typical TrueType fonts, in fact... enough for almost    
   all non-East-Asian text people are likely to need in day-to-day (i.e.    
   user interface-style) use.   
      
   And OS/2 actually does have a bitmap font format that supports Unicode,   
   basically through a kind of binary directory that combines standard   
   bitmap fonts together.  I just don't know of any existing fonts that    
   actually use this format...   
      
   But that's going kind of off topic.    
      
   To answer the original question: no, because OS/2 uses a file format   
   for its screen (bitmap) fonts that no other operating system supports.   
      
   The "standard" bitmap font format that Linux (well, FreeType) supports   
   is BDF.  However, you can also create a TrueType font with embedded   
   bitmaps that get shown in place of rendered outlines at specific point   
   sizes.  I don't know of any examples of either that resemble System VIO,   
   however...   
      
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