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