1 1.1.1.2 mrg The identity of the designer(s) of the original ASCII repertoire and 2 1.1.1.2 mrg the later Latin-1 extension of the misc-fixed BDF fonts appears to 3 1.1.1.2 mrg have been lost in history. (It is likely that many of these 7-bit 4 1.1.1.2 mrg ASCII fonts were created in the early or mid 1980s as part of MIT's 5 1.1.1.2 mrg Project Athena, or at its industrial partner, DEC.) 6 1.1.1.2 mrg 7 1.1.1.2 mrg In 1997, Markus Kuhn at the University of Cambridge Computer 8 1.1.1.2 mrg Laboratory initiated and headed a project to extend the misc-fixed BDF 9 1.1.1.2 mrg fonts to as large a subset of Unicode/ISO 10646 as is feasible for 10 1.1.1.2 mrg each of the available font sizes, as part of a wider effort to 11 1.1.1.2 mrg encourage users of POSIX systems to migrate from ISO 8859 to UTF-8. 12 1.1.1.2 mrg 13 1.1.1.2 mrg Robert Brady <rwb197 (a] ecs.soton.ac.uk> and Birger Langkjer 14 1.1.1.2 mrg <birger.langkjer (a] image.dk> contributed thousands of glyphs and made 15 1.1.1.2 mrg very substantial contributions and improvements on almost all fonts. 16 1.1.1.2 mrg Constantine Stathopoulos <cstath (a] irismedia.gr> contributed all the 17 1.1.1.2 mrg Greek characters. Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> did 18 1.1.1.2 mrg most 6x13 glyphs and the italic fonts and provided many more glyphs, 19 1.1.1.2 mrg coordination, and quality assurance for the other fonts. Mark Leisher 20 1.1.1.2 mrg <mleisher (a] crl.nmsu.edu> contributed to 6x13 Armenian, Georgian, the 21 1.1.1.2 mrg first version of Latin Extended Block A and some Cyrillic. Serge V. 22 1.1.1.2 mrg Vakulenko <vak (a] crox.net.kiae.su> donated the original Cyrillic glyphs 23 1.1.1.2 mrg from his 6x13 ISO 8859-5 font. Nozomi Ytow <nozomi (a] biol.tsukuba.ac.jp> 24 1.1.1.2 mrg contributed 6x13 halfwidth Katakana. Henning Brunzel 25 1.1.1.2 mrg <hbrunzel (a] meta-systems.de> contributed glyphs to 10x20.bdf. Theppitak 26 1.1.1.2 mrg Karoonboonyanan <thep (a] linux.thai.net> contributed Thai for 7x13, 27 1.1.1.2 mrg 7x13B, 7x13O, 7x14, 7x14B, 8x13, 8x13B, 8x13O, 9x15, 9x15B, and 10x20. 28 1.1.1.2 mrg Karl Koehler <koehler (a] or.uni-bonn.de> contributed Arabic to 9x15, 29 1.1.1.2 mrg 9x15B, and 10x20 and Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh (a] sharif.ac.ir> and 30 1.1.1.2 mrg Behdad Esfahbod revised and extended Arabic in 10x20. Raphael Finkel 31 1.1.1.2 mrg <raphael (a] cs.uky.edu> revised Hebrew/Yiddish in 10x20. Jungshik Shin 32 1.1.1.2 mrg <jshin (a] pantheon.yale.edu> prepared 18x18ko.bdf. Won-kyu Park 33 1.1.1.2 mrg <wkpark (a] chem.skku.ac.kr> prepared the Hangul glyphs used in 12x13ja. 34 1.1.1.2 mrg Janne V. Kujala <jvk (a] iki.fi> contributed 4x6. Daniel Yacob 35 1.1.1.2 mrg <perl (a] geez.org> revised some Ethiopic glyphs. Ted Zlatanov 36 1.1.1.2 mrg <tzz (a] lifelogs.com> did some 7x14. Mikael hman <micketeer (a] gmail.com> 37 1.1.1.2 mrg worked on 6x12. 38 1.1.1.2 mrg 39 1.1.1.2 mrg The fonts are still maintained by Markus Kuhn and the original 40 1.1.1.2 mrg distribution can be found at: 41 1.1.1.2 mrg 42 1.1.1.2 mrg http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html 43
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