Merge pull request #5137 from radarhere/imagefont

Document limited number of characters in FontFile
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The :py:mod:`~PIL.ImageFont` module defines a class with the same name. Instance
this class store bitmap fonts, and are used with the
:py:meth:`PIL.ImageDraw.ImageDraw.text` method.
PIL uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts. You can use
PIL uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts, limited to 256 characters. You can use
`pilfont.py <https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-scripts/blob/master/Scripts/pilfont.py>`_
from `pillow-scripts <https://pypi.org/project/pillow-scripts/>`_ to convert BDF and
PCF font descriptors (X window font formats) to this format.