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+2009-11-29  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>
+
+	Optimise glyph lookup by Basic Multilingual Plane lookup array.
+
+	* font/font.c (struct grub_font): New member 'bmp_idx'.
+	(font_init): Initialise 'bmp_idx'.
+	(load_font_index): Fill 'bmp_idx'.
+	(find_glyph): Make inline. Use bmp_idx for BMP characters.
+