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Re: Fonts for console/fb for various locales: a proposal
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 02:39:19PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
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> 4. Rasterizing (c). This is the whole purpose of METAFONT. METAFONT is a
> rasterizer.
Rasterization of vector fonts by privileged code has been a major source
of security holes in other operating systems. Does the very limited
benefit really justify the risk?
Thor
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