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Old 05-06-2015, 11:52 AM   #76
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
That was my idea, replace one system font with a custom one that's exactly the same, but has some additional "characters" in a private area (like an "ll" ligature), then translated strings could use these characters directly (write "*ibres", where * is the codepoint for this ll ligature), everything else would keep working the same.
I understood that that was your idea. That is why I hinted at one sever problem: Attempts to make a side loaded font work directly after boot (without opening a book) failed until now. Of course, this might not be much of a problem for people how seldom power their device off.

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