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+Copyright statements and the source of the qpf fonts are located in ../../src/3rdparty/fonts
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+The fonts here are in various formats:
+
+ *.ttf - TrueType fonts, requires QT_FEATURE_TRUETYPE
+ *.pfa - PostScript fonts, used as source material for some QPF fonts
+ *.qpf - Qt prerendered fonts (QPF format) rendered from above fonts.
+
+QPF is the portable, endian-independent format used by Qt/Embedded 2.x and 3.x.
+
+The prerendered fonts are generated from various sources:
+
+ fixed* - Fixed font.
+ helvetica* - Helvetica BDF format font distributed with X11
+ - Latin-1 characters (about 250 characters).
+ japanese* - Helvetica BDF format font distributed with X11
+ - ISO 10646-1 encoding.
+ micro* - Micro font (see micro.bdf).
+ unifont* - Unifont (see unifont.bdf)
+ - full unicode range (about 50000 characters).
+