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On Friday 22 December 2006 19:40, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> Does anyone know of a good all-round font to use for a unicode console? |
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> Ideally, I want to be able to display mostly European languages (though, |
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> if there is a font out there that can deal with Asian languages too, that |
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> would be great ;-) |
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Terminus has all the characters I need: |
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http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/jimmy-en.html |
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> Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font |
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> source: terminus-font-4.20.tar.gz (198KB) |
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> Terminus Font is designed for long (8 and more hours per day) work with |
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> computers. Version 4.16 contains 690 characters, covering code pages |
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> ISO8859-1/2/5/9/13/15/16, IBM-437/852/855/866, KOI8-R/U/E/F, |
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> Windows-1250/1251/1252/1254/1257, Paratype-PT154/PT254, Bulgarian-MIK, |
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> Macintosh-Ukrainian, Esperanto and many others (a total of about 110 |
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> language sets). Also included are the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm |
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> pseudographic characters. The sizes present are 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, |
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> 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32. The styles are normal and bold (except for 6x12), |
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> plus EGA/VGA-bold for 8x14 and 8x16. |
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And it's available in portage: |
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emerge -av media-fonts/terminus-font |
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I've heard that the Microsoft Arial Unicode fonts have nearly all characters, |
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but I don't know if they can be used in the console (probably not). |
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/PA |
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